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Hunters Out of Space, by Joseph E. Kelleam. Part III. Nov 06, 2025

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Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins.

Many of his friends are gone, the world is flooded, and the woman he swore to protect has been taken by Grim Hagen to the stars. Jack must save her, but the difficulties are great and his allies are few.

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Hunters Out of Space, by Joseph E. Kelleam. Part II. Nov 06, 2025

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Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins.

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Hunters Out of Space, by Joseph E. Kelleam. Part I. Nov 06, 2025

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Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins.

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Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. Part II. Nov 06, 2025

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Dido, Queen of Carthage is the earliest of Christopher Marlowe's known plays, possibly written while he was still a student at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge whose college library held a copy of Virgil's Aeneid, the principal source of the story. The play was co-authored by a fellow Cambridge undergraduate Thomas Nashe, although Nashe's contribution is now thought to have been a minor one. It was acted by the "Children of Her Maiestie's Chappell " around 1587.

The play tells of the tragic love affair between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a survivor from the destruction of Troy who is voyaging to Italy to build a new city. When Aeneas and his men are driven ashore near Carthage he and Dido fall in love and plan to marry. But Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, reminds Aeneas of his divinely decreed mission to found Rome.

This is a dramatic reading.

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Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. Part I. Nov 06, 2025

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This is a dramatic reading.

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Captain Fracasse, by Théophile Gautier. Part VIII. Nov 03, 2025

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The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis XIII in France, concerns the progress of an impoverished nobleman as he ventures forth into a series of dangerous adventures which culminate in the restoration of his true noble social position. In today's parlance the story might be described as an action romance.

The protagonist happens to become involved a group of travelling actors whom he accompanies in his search for himself. There are a number of similarities with Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship". Among the troupe of actors is a young woman with whom he falls deeply in love, which sustains him in his quest for social restoration.

The novel idealises hereditary nobility. There is a happy ending for all, in which aristocratic society is vindicated.