Project Gutenberg 2009-06-25 Public domain in the USA. 48 Jacobi, Carl 1908 1997 Jacobi, Carl Richard Made in Tanganyika Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Made in Tanganyika" by Carl Jacobi is a science fiction novella likely written in the mid-20th century. The story revolves around Martin Sutter, a conchologist who, on his fortieth birthday, decides to break free from his routine life. He purchases a peculiar television set that leads him into a surreal and mysterious adventure that intertwines with themes of time travel and alternate dimensions. In the narrative, Sutter discovers that the television set he bought has a strange connection to an alternate reality featuring beautiful alien shells on a beach. His roommate, Lucien Travail, who shares a hobby in shell collecting, provides an uneasy company as Sutter embarks on experiments to explore this new world through the TV. As he gathers these shells and their value heightens, suspicion grows towards Travail, whom Sutter suspects may harbor ulterior motives. The tension ultimately culminates in a dramatic turn as Sutter’s attempt to frighten Travail leads to both men being caught in the fantastical realm within the shell, leaving their fates uncertain. The story mixes elements of humor and suspense while exploring the allure and dangers of obsession. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 53120 53121 2024-10-12T14:43:11.687606 2023-09-13T05:53:12.806605 text/html text/html 49360 2009-06-25T15:44:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 19553 2009-06-25T15:44:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 92233 2024-10-12T14:43:17.557570 application/epub+zip 91119 2024-10-12T14:43:15.033578 application/epub+zip 74669 2024-10-12T14:43:13.645604 application/epub+zip 201660 2024-10-12T14:43:19.234557 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 194157 2024-10-12T14:43:16.817582 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168928 2022-09-13T14:23:14.189353 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46731 46631 2024-10-12T14:43:11.394605 2023-09-13T05:53:12.634598 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 46579 2009-06-25T15:44:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18403 2009-06-25T15:44:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20042 2024-10-12T14:43:19.368546 application/rdf+xml 14796 2024-10-12T14:43:14.204599 image/jpeg 3780 2024-10-12T14:43:13.934580 image/jpeg 91046 2024-10-12T14:43:11.693601 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia