The Death-Cloud ♦ Astounding Stories ♦ By Arthur L. Zagat ♦ Science Fic...

The Death-Cloud  ♦ Astounding Stories ♦ By Arthur L. Zagat ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Published in Astounding Stories 17, May 1931



Title:  The Death-Cloud



Author:  Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Bill Boerst



Librivox Recording



We sat, Eric Bolton and I, at a parapet table atop the 200-story General Aviation Building. The efficient robot waiter of the Sky Club had cleared away the remnants of an epicurean meal. Only a bowl of golden fruit remained--globes of nectar picked in the citrus groves of California that morning. My eye wandered over the scene spread before us, the vast piling of masonry that is New York. The dying beams of the setting sun glinted golden from the roofs of the pleasure palaces topping the soaring structures. Lower, amid interlacing archings of the mid-air thoroughfares, darkness had already piled its blackness. Two thousand feet below, in the region of perpetual night, the green-blue factory lights flared. On three sides, the unbroken serration of the Empire City's beehives stretched in a semicircle of twenty miles radius. Long since, the rivers that had made old Manhattan an island had been roofed over. But, to the east, the heaving sea still stretched its green expanse. On the horizon a vast cloud mountain billowed upward from the watery surface, white, and pink and many shades of violet.



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