Hunters Out of Space

Early SciFI circa 1900. (From the beginning:) CHAPTER 1 In Kansas spring usually falls on the day before summer. It had been such a day and now at midnight I was sitting at my desk. Both hands of the clock were pointing to the ceiling-and to the limitless stars beyond. My wife and daughter had long been asleep. I had stayed up to write a few letters but it was not a night for working. Although it was a bit chilly outside the moon was bright and a bird was singing a glad and plaintive song about the summer that was coming and all the summers that had passed and all that would be. Adding here and there a bit of melody about all the good things that happen to birds and men without their knowing why. Both hands of the clock were pointing upward. And I was half-asleep and half-dreaming. Remembering all the friends I had-most of them scattered to the four winds by now. And that best friend of all Doctor Jack Odin! I wondered where he was and how he had fared since he disappeared into that dark cave in Texas.