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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aOrndorff, Frank,
_d1885-1971
245 1 4 _aThe terrors of the upper air
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the Winter Edition, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2024-04-27
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _a"The Terrors of the Upper Air" by Frank Orndorff is a science fiction short story published in the late 1920s, likely during the early years of the genre's popularization. This tale combines elements of adventure and mystery, exploring the treacherous and largely unknown realms of high-altitude flight, as a duo of daring aviators unwittingly stumble upon extraordinary dangers far above the Earth. The narrative follows Pemberton, a detective tasked with capturing two aviators, Kidwell and Dexter, suspected of a bank robbery. As they ascend in their plane to break the world's altitude record, they encounter violent winds and strange phenomena that lead to a harrowing adventure in the upper atmosphere. In a shocking twist, they discover floating islands filled with bizarre vegetation and fearsome creatures. Despite their initial triumph, tragedy strikes when Dexter is killed, and Kidwell disappears, leaving the ground-level spectators in shock. The story concludes with a poignant ambiguity about the fate of the aviators, raising questions of truth and deceit, suggesting that their adventure may have been both real and a clever ruse. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928
653 _aShort stories
653 _aCriminals -- Fiction
653 _aAir pilots -- Fiction
700 1 _aPaul, Frank R.
_q(Frank Rudolph),
_d1884-1963
830 0 _aProduced from the Winter Edition, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v01n01_1928_Winter
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73477
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