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    Hellhounds of the Cosmos
    Hellhounds of the Cosmos
    Hellhounds of the Cosmos
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    Hellhounds of the Cosmos

    By Clifford D. Simak

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    Release dateJan 1, 2009
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    Clifford D. Simak

    During his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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      For six months Earth has been under attack from scarcely visible monsters. At first it was small rural communities that were wiped out, but when a newspaper editor gets the word that "The Horror is attacking London in force. … There are thousands of them and they have completely surrounded the city. All roads are blocked.” He sends reporter Harry Woods to interview Dr. Silas White, a man who claims to know something about this mysterious enemy.At first, Woods is taken aback by White’s strangely unique ideas about evolution and extra dimensions. But when White demonstrates an apparatus that transforms a three-dimensional dog into a four-dimensional being and brings back it back again alive and whole, Woods is convinced. Convinced that this is an invasion of four-dimensional beings and that the only way to stop them is to transform humans into a four-dimensional force to counterattack. So, Woods joins another ninety-eight volunteers as they sally forth “to invade the fourth-dimensional plane of these hellhounds.”From here on it’s a slugfest, a brawl between giants in an alien landscape, where the only thing exceeding the punches thrown are the adjectives used to describe them. And reader Chenevert exuberantly narrates every whiz-bang wallop of the fight with the gusto it deserves.
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    Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Clifford D. Simak

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    Title: Hellhounds of the Cosmos

    Author: Clifford Donald Simak

    Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27013]

    Language: English

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    He glimmered momentarily, then vanished.

    Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men.

    Hellhounds of the Cosmos

    By Clifford D. Simak

    The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another front-page story told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear. Other stories told of deaths here and there, all attributable to the Black Horror, as it was called.

    The telephone rang.

    Hello, said the editor.

    London calling, came the voice of the operator.

    All right, replied the editor.

    He recognized the voice of Terry Masters, special correspondent. His voice came clearly over the transatlantic telephone.

    The Horror is attacking London in force, he said. There are thousands of them and they have completely surrounded the city. All roads are blocked. The government declared the city under martial rule a quarter of an hour ago and efforts are being made to prepare for resistance against the enemy.

    Just a second, the editor shouted into the transmitter.

    He touched a button on his desk and in a moment an answering buzz told him he was in communication with the press-room.

    Stop the presses! he yelled into the speaking tube. Get ready for a new front make-up!

    O.K., came faintly through the tube, and the editor turned back to the phone.

    Now let's have it, he said, and the voice at the London end of the wire droned on, telling the story that in another half hour was read by a world which shuddered in cold fear even as it scanned the glaring headlines.

    Woods, said the editor of the Press to a reporter, run over and talk to Dr. Silas White. He phoned me to send someone. Something about this Horror business.

    Henry Woods rose from his chair without a word and walked from the office. As he passed the wire machine it was tapping out, with a maddeningly methodical slowness, the story of the fall of London. Only half an hour before it had rapped forth the flashes concerning the attack on Paris and Berlin.

    He passed out of the building into a street that was swarming with terrified humanity. Six months of terror, of numerous mysterious deaths, of villages blotted out, had set the world on edge. Now with London in possession of the Horror and Paris and Berlin fighting hopelessly for their lives, the entire population of the world was half insane with fright.

    Exhorters on street corners enlarged upon the end of the world, asking that the people prepare for eternity, attributing the Horror to the act of a Supreme Being enraged with the wickedness of the Earth.

    Expecting every moment an attack by the Horror, people left their work and gathered in the streets. Traffic, in places, had been blocked for hours and law and order were practically paralyzed. Commerce and transportation were disrupted as fright-ridden people fled from the larger cities, seeking

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