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    Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
    Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
    Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
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    Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940

    By Various Various and Ray Bradbury

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013

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      Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940 - Various Various

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      Title: Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940

      Author: Various

      Editor: Ray Bradbury

      Release Date: December 18, 2012 [EBook #41651]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FUTURIA FANTASIA, SPRING 1940 ***

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      futuria fantasia

      Spring 1940

      vol. 1. no. 4.

      Ray Bradbury—editor

      ten cents

      CONTENTS

      FUTURIA FANTASIA IS PUBLISHED IRREGULARLY AND GESTATED AT THE DOW-JONES BUYING LEVEL OF TEN CENTS AN ISSUE. THE FIFTH ISSUE WILL BE SCARING YOU AROUND ABOUT HALLOWEEN—SEND YOUR DIME TO EDITOR BRADBURY AT #3054 1/2 W. 12th St. Los Angeles, Calif. CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE HAPPILY FONDLED AND SEWED UP IN A GREEN VELVET SACK. ALL STORIES SUBMITTED MUST BE SHAVED AND IN THE COMPANY OF ADULT MARTIANS.

      gorgono and slith—

      Let us, by all means, be lucid, said Gorgono to Slith. Slith fluttered his reptile tongue and turned his morbid eyes to me. Yes, he said, let us, certainly be lucid, Bradbury. From now on use a contents page in Futuria Fantasia. And he spanked his tail slickly on my typewriter.

      I don't mind Slith so much, he's only a little anachronistic reptile, a descendent of happier days in dinosaurial dawndom. I never feared Slith. But Gorgono!

      Gorgono pierced me with his slanting green, clear eyes, heavy-lidded, extending one claw and attempting to keep it from shaking while his pointed ears stood up straight. A moment before he had been hunting fleas in the fertile hair that clothed his muscular limbs, but now he was serious; so very serious it frightened me.

      And when the thunder-voiced, evil-eyed, shaggy haired and monstrous Gorgono reclined on

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