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Author: John Buchan

John Buchan (1875 – 1940) was a Scottish novelist and politician, best known for his 1915 espionage novel The Thirty-Nine Steps and its sequels: Greenmantle (1916), Mr Standfast (1919), The Three Hostages (1924), and The Island of Sheep (1936). His works of sf genre interest include the novella "No-Man's-Land" (1899), "The Knees of the Gods" (1907), and "Space" (1911). Buchan's only sf novel is The Gap in the Curtain (1932)

SPACE (8)

By: John Buchan

Space a domain of endless corridors and Presences moving in them!

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SPACE (7)

By: John Buchan

“I am getting near the Abomination of the Desolation.”

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SPACE (6)

By: John Buchan

“There’s a queer performance going on in the other world.”

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SPACE (5)

By: John Buchan

The forms played their game independent of our kind of reality.

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SPACE (4)

By: John Buchan

“He tried to show me what he called the ‘involution of Space.'”

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SPACE (3)

By: John Buchan

“Space is not an empty homogeneous medium…”

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SPACE (2)

By: John Buchan

“I mean just empty, void, nothing but blank aether.”

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SPACE (1)

By: John Buchan

“Wasn’t he some sort of mathematical professor?”

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No Man’s Land (15)

By: John Buchan

He awoke from his illness to find the world incredulous.

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No Man’s Land (14)

By: John Buchan

I sent a bullet through the right eye of the first thing that came on.

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No Man’s Land (13)

By: John Buchan

In the cave it was always a dusky twilight.

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No Man’s Land (12)

By: John Buchan

“What guid can man dae?”

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No Man’s Land (11)

By: John Buchan

I remembered my mission and my fate.

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No Man’s Land (10)

By: John Buchan

“You are a coward,” said my conscience.

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No Man’s Land (9)

By: John Buchan

The world seemed full of spies.

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