Excerpts from the Book 'The Moon Pool':

... of that vehicle make necessary. For these reasons the Executive Council commissioned Mr. A. Merritt to transcribe into form to be readily understood ...
... truth. Wait- I comforted him as well as I could. After a little time he took up his story. Never, he said, did man welcome the sun as we did that morning. ...
... without power. All sails set, even to a spinnaker she carried, she was making the best of the little breeze. I tried to read her name, but the ...
... so well. Da Costa at last relieved the Cantonese at the wheel. O'Keefe and I drew chairs up to the rail. The brighter stars shone out dimly through a ...
... and a few other instruments for the analysis of certain light manifestations and the testing of metal and liquid. Finally, I put aside my emergency medical ...
... a grunt of satisfaction at this, dropped a little more of the liquid, and then, watching closely, grunted again and leaned back. Huldricksson's ...
... they came hence, he growled. She darted a quick look at him, and again the little devils danced in her wondrous eyes. Unquestionably there is a subtle ...
... three sides, the black opacity covering it, the fourth side opening out into a delicious little walled garden-a mass of the fragrant, luminous blooms ...
... hurriedly. She drew the shining cone from her breast levelled it at the vase. The green ray leaped forth, spread over the crystal, but before its ...
... led his swarms-triumphal, compelling! Alexander's clamouring hosts, brazen-throated wolf-horns of Caesar's legions, blare of trumpets of Genghis ...
... her you didn't love her-then? He gazed at me-the old twinkle back in his eye. Spoken like a scientist, Doc! he exclaimed. I suppose if a burning ...
... can slay-but in the end you will be taken. Life is not held so dear in Muria that my men out there or those others who can come quickly will let you by-even ...
... cut through soft green mould. Its base was a flat strip of pathway a yard wide from which the walls curved out in perfect cylindrical form, smoothed ...
... nausea. Rador turned to us a face whiter far than that with which he had looked upon the dragon worm. Now for your lives, he whispered, tread ...
... the sea rocks and dimples around it-blue as the heavens, green as the isle itself, and foam horses toss their white manes, and the great clean winds ...
... reached down and picked up something that in the grasping turned his hand to air. One of the invisible cloaks, he said to me. There must be quite ...
... plumes, throbbing lacy opalescences, vaporous spirallings of prismatic phantom fires. Steady over it hung the seven little moons of amethyst, of ...
... muzzles, baring the glistening rows of needle-teeth. And while I watched them with the fascination that they never lost for me, the monsters calmly swung one ...
... and in the hollows of the island's ragged outer lip the domed castle was a hive of them, if I may mix my metaphors-and the rocks and gardens that ...
... the grave I gave it a careful and sorrowful examination. The skin was firm and smooth, but cold not the cold of death, but with a chill that set my ...