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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Phaestra's
slim
fingers
worked
rapidly
at
the
controls.
The
scenes
shifted
in
quick
succession.
They
were
once
more
in
the
present,
and
seemed
to
be
traveling
speedily
through
the
underground
reaches
of
Theros.
Now
they
were
racing
through
a
long
lighted
passage;
now
over
a
great
city
similar
to
the
one
in
which
they
had
arrived.
Here
they
visited
a
huge
workshop
or
laboratory;
there
a
mine
where
radium
or
cobalt
or
platinum
was
being
wrested
from
the
vitals
of
the
unwilling
earth.
Then
they
visited
a
typical
Theronian
household,
saw
the
perfect
peace
and
happiness
in
which
the
family
lived.
Again
they
were
in
a
large
power
plant
where
direct
application
of
the
internal
heat
of
the
earth
as
obtained
through
deep
shafts
bored
into
the
interior
was
utilized
in
generating
electricity.
They
saw
vast
quantities
of
supplies,
fifty-ton
masses
of
machinery,
moved
from
place
to
place
as
lightly
as
feathers
by
use
of
the
gravity
discs,
those
heavily
charged
plates
whose
emanations
counteracted
the
earth's
attraction.
In
one
busy
laboratory
they
saw
an
immense
television
apparatus
and
heard
scientists
discussing
moot
questions
with
inhabitants
of
Venus,
whose
images
were
depicted
on
the
screen.
They
witnessed
a
severe
electrical
storm
in
the
huge
cavern
arch
over
one
of
the
cities,
a
storm
that
condensed
moisture
from
the
artificially
oxygenated
and
humidified
atmosphere
in
such
blinding
sheets
as
to
easily
explain
the
necessity
for
well-roofed
buildings
in
the
underground
realm.
And,
in
all
the
speech
and
activities
of
the
Theronians,
there
was
evident
that
all-pervading
feeling
of
absolute
contentment
and
freedom
from
care.
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