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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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"Through
the
centuries,
while
on
the
land
our
races
of
green
men
have
been
struggling
upward,
the
Ralas
have
oppressed
them.
Long
ago
the
Ralas
left
all
their
other
cities
to
build
this
one
great
amphibian
city
at
the
sea's
center.
Entrance
to
it
is
only
by
the
water-tunnel
from
without,
and
being
frog-people
entrance
thus
is
easy
for
them
since
they
can
move
for
many
minutes
under
water,
though
they
drown
like
any
other
breathing
animal
if
kept
under
too
long.
Humans
dare
not
try
to
enter
it
thus
by
the
water-tunnel,
since,
before
they
could
find
it
and
make
their
way
up
through
it,
they
would
have
drowned.
"So
the
Ralas
have
ruled
from
this
impregnable
amphibian
city.
Its
colossal
metal
dome
is
invulnerable
to
ordinary
attack,
and
though
solid
and
without
openings
it
is
always
as
light
beneath
the
dome
here
as
outside,
since
the
Ralas'
scientists
contrived
light-condensers
and
conductors
that
catch
light
outside
and
bring
it
in
to
release
inside.
So
when
it
is
day
outside
the
sunlight
is
as
bright
here,
and
when
night
comes
the
Earth-light
shines
here
the
same
as
without.
"From
this
city
their
raiding
parties
have
gone
out
endlessly
to
swoop
down
on
the
cities
of
us
green
men.
Since
we
learned
to
make
flying-boats
like
theirs,
with
molecular-motors,
and
to
make
the
guns
like
theirs
that
fire
shells
filled
with
annihilating
force,
we
have
resisted
them
stoutly
but
their
raids
have
not
ceased.
And
always
they
have
brought
their
prisoners
back
in
to
this,
their
city.
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