The Gates of Chance
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About This Book
We like Van Tassel Sutphen's work a lot -- open up and read a bit to see why; he's an enormously lucid and engaging writer -- but, try as we might, we've had a hard time finding much out about him. Oh, there are a few lines in the Science Fiction encyclopedia to the effect that he was an American writer who lived from 1861 to 1945; that he wrote a bunch of golf stories and a terse description of his 1906 postholocaust novel, The Doomsman. (Yes, 1906 -- bet you thought all this end-of-the-world thinking came out of the inventionn of the A Bomb, but no, Sutphen just barely lived to see that.) Th...
Chapters (14)
- The Gates of Chance
- Van Tassel Sutphen
- I The Gentleman's Visiting-Card
- II The Red Duchess
- III House in the Middle of the Block
- IV The Private Letter-Box
- V The Ninety-and-nine Kisses
- VI The Queen of Spades
- VII The Opal Button
- VIII The Tip-top Tip
- IX The Brass Baggage-Check
- X The Upset Apple-Cart
- XI The Philadelphia Quizzing-Glass
- XII The Adjuster of Averages
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