Project Gutenberg 2024-04-27 Public domain in the USA. 127 Orndorff, Frank 1885 1971 Orndorff, Frank Milliken Paul, Frank R. (Frank Rudolph) 1884 1963 Paul, Frank Rudolph The terrors of the upper air $aNew York, NY :$bExperimenter Publishing Company, $c1928. Produced from the Winter Edition, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly magazine. Roger Frank and Sue Clark "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.) https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v01n01_1928_Winter 20240421114026orndorff 1928 US Reading ease score: 80.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Criminals -- Fiction Air pilots -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Adventure 62760 2025-06-29T06:22:24.716600 text/html 38711 2024-04-27T10:31:23 text/html 567260 2025-06-29T06:22:27.835640 application/epub+zip 566031 2025-06-29T06:22:25.864592 application/epub+zip 295292 2025-06-29T06:22:25.074619 application/epub+zip 2260086 2025-06-29T06:22:29.268692 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2253358 2025-06-29T06:22:27.221615 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 55746 2025-06-29T06:22:24.588617 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 35942 2024-04-27T10:31:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16674 2025-06-29T06:22:29.402570 application/rdf+xml 31026 2025-06-29T06:22:25.312594 image/jpeg 4668 2025-06-29T06:22:25.191623 image/jpeg 802444 2025-06-29T06:22:24.734653 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia