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    The House from Nowhere
    The House from Nowhere
    The House from Nowhere
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    The House from Nowhere

    By Arthur G. Stangland

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The House from Nowhere - Arthur G. Stangland

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The House from Nowhere, by Arthur G. Stangland

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      Title: The House from Nowhere

      Author: Arthur G. Stangland

      Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31588]

      Language: English

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe Aug-Sept 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Time-travel continues to exercise its mesmeric fascination upon writers, readers and editors of science fiction alike. Probably because almost all of us, at one time or another, have longed greatly to visit either the future or the past. Perhaps, in view of the dangerous paradoxes such travel must involve, it is a good thing that such horological journeys have to date been confined to the printed page.

      the house from nowhere

      by ... Arthur G. Stangland

      New neighbors are always exciting. But the anachronistic MacDonalds offered a bit too much.

      The morning paper lay unread before Philon Miller on the breakfast table and even the prospects of steaming coffee, ham, eggs and orange juice could not make him forget his last night's visitors.

      On the closed-circuit Industrial TV screen glowed the words, Food Preparation Center breakfast menu for July 24, 2052. No. 1, orange juice, coffee, ham and eggs. No. 2, waffle, coffee....

      Automatically he punched the button for No. 1. Oh, his visitors had made matters appear justifiable. The presidential election campaign was going badly, Rakoff the chairman said, and his poll-quota for the election had been upped from twenty-five grand to fifty.

      A stainless-steel capsule popped into the transparent wall dock. Of course the party quota system was taken for granted, he mused, removing the capsule, but it was an obligation you didn't welsh on. The muscle boys in the party organization saw to that. But still, fifty thousand....

      Across the table John, his sixteen-year-old adopted son, stirred. I guess you aren't as hungry as I am, Phil.

      What? Oh, sorry. John—down here for breakfast? What was the matter? The kid sick or something? Every morning he took his meal to his room to eat in solitude. Funny kid.

      Philon removed the food capsule from the wall dock, stopping the soft gushing of air in the suction tube. Setting it on the table he snapped it

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