Excerpts from the Book 'The Drone':

... said: It is a deep-rooted belief, an immeasurably ancient, that a man or woman may assume the shape of an animal, a serpent, a bird, even an insect. ...
... the head of a jackal? Or Thoth, the God of Wisdom, the head of an ibis and Horus, the Divine son of Isis and Osiris, the head of a hawk? Set, God ...
... of the werewolf, the snake-woman, and all the others. What could be more simple? Winston asked: But you're not serious, Caranac? Caranac laughed. ...
... Do you mean to suggest that in an instant the musculature and skeleton of a man can become the musculature and skeleton of a wolf? The skin sprout ...
... began heatedly: But- Hewitt interrupted him: Will the opposing counsel kindly shut up and listen to expert testimony. Caranac, I'm grateful to you. You've ...
... why. He said the village had a priest who was a great wizard. On the nights of the full moon the priest turned himself into a hyena and went hunting. For ...
... and they got worse when night began to fall. I noted there was not the usual cheerful twilight bustle that characterizes the native village. The people went ...
... upon his. Except for that skin he was stark naked and his teeth glistened as though oiled. I felt the headman shivering against me like a frightened ...
... managed to shake off the spell that had held me, took my flash and gun and went over to where the brute had been. The ground was soft and wet. There ...
... asked: Did anyone but you see those prints? Hewitt said: No. For obvious reasons I did not show them to the headman. Winston said: I hold ...
... may share the brain with other consciousness-beast or bird or what not. I say it may be that all life is one. A single force, but a thinking and conscious ...
... a little mid-west college. My roommate was a lad named-well, I'll just be calling him Ferguson. There was a professor with ideas you would not expect ...
... You make it all seem so damned real.' 'It is real,' he told me. 'I chase with the hounds and I run with the hare. I set my mind on some animal and ...
... under a microscope. Or rather-I thought suddenly-of a bee's. But I felt a real shock when I grasped his hand. It felt less like a man's hand than the ...
... And the animals aren't so happy. So I'm concentrating on the bee. A drone, Mac. A short life but an exceedingly merry one.' I said: 'What in the hell ...
... He looked fuzzier and yellower than before. Also, the drone and hum of his voice seemed stronger. He took me into his house. It was an odd enough place. ...
... when you are at the tip of the flame... but he strikes too late. You die-but what of that? You have cheated death. You do not know it is death that ...
... circled my head once and twice and thrice. It flashed to the window and clung to the screen, buzzing, crawling, beating its wings against it... There ...
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