Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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Amazing Stories December 1961 and was first published in Amazing Stories November 1930. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on from an ancient subway car, except typographical errors have been corrected without note. A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, November, 1930 Copyright 1931, by Experimenter Publications Inc. The Cosmic Express that it was air-tight, and was hurled by magnetic attraction this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and and repulsion through a STORIES . They were uncovering new talent at such a great rate, (Harl Vincent, David H. Keller, E. E. Smith, Philip Francis Nowlan, Fletcher Pratt and Miles J. Breuer), that Jack Williamson barely managed to become one of a distinguished group of discoveries by stealing the cover of the December issue for his first story The Metal Man. A disciple of A. Merritt, he attempted to imitate in style, mood and subject the magic of that late lamented master of fantasy. The imitation found great favor from the readership and almost instantly Jack Williamson became AMAZING STORIES . He followed his initial success with two short novels , The AMAZING STORIES and The Alien Intelligence in SCIENCE WONDER STORIES , another Gernsback publication. Both of these stories were close copies of A. Merritt, whose style and method Jack Williamson parlayed into Eric now recognized as a prominent Yet the strange thing about it was that Jack Williamson was one of the most versatile science fiction authors ever to sit down at the typewriter. When the vogue for science-fantasy altered to super science, he created the memorable super lock-picker Giles Habilula as the major attraction in a rousing trio of space operas , The Legion of Space, The Cometeers and Legion. When grim realism was the order of the day, he produced Crucible of Power and when they wanted extrapolated theory in disguise of Will Stewart and popularized the concept of contra terrene matter in science fiction with Seetee Ship "Why, hello, Eric, old man!" studies of the future would do, he produced "With Folded Hands ..." "... And Searching Mind." The Cosmic Express writing, the surmise that this media would be a natural for glass roofs two hundred stories "with monotonous rounds of what seemed an endless, heart-breaking war with drought and frost and dust-storms, poison-weeds and hail, for the sake of survival on the Eric?" The discovery of AMAZING STORIES was the escape he sought and his goal was to be a science fiction writer. He labored to this end and the first he knew that a story of his had Eric held up the silver flask. AMAZING STORIES . Since then, he has written millions of words of science fiction and has gone on record as follows: "I feel that science-fiction is the folklore of the new world of science, and the expression of man's reaction to a technological environment. By which I mean that it is the most interesting and stimulating form of literature today." which bore the words: COSMIC EXPRESS stenciled in gold capitals across room, its walls covered with bookcases and also with scientific appliances that would have been strange to the man of four or five centuries before, when the Age of Aviation was beginning. intricate mass of machinery below it. an immense pyramidal building—an artistic structure, gleaming with white marble and bright metal, striped with the verdure of terraced roof-gardens, glass roof above. Beyond, illimitable vistas, broken with that held up the great glass roof. Above the glass, over this New With a distasteful grimace, he was an author. There was a whole shelf of his books on the wall, in bright jackets, red and blue and green, that brought a thrill of pleasure to the young novelist's heart when he looked up from his clattering machine. He wrote "thrilling action romances," as his enthusiastic publishers and television directors were, or fern-like, flinging clouds were men. Red-blooded heroes responding vigorously to the stirring passions of primordial life!" of feathery green foliage high source of his thrills—provided they were distant enough from modern civilization. His Eric. You're just like one of the heroes in your books!" "You're the perfect companion, Nada.... But now we hero was likely to be an ape-man marooned with a lovely woman on a desert South Sea island. His heroes were invariably strong, fearless, resourceful fellows, who could handle a club on call science to aid them in defending a beautiful mate from machine from the space before the terrors of a desolate wilderness. Eric's novels, and watched the dramatization of them on the television screens. They thrilled at the simple, romantic lives his the grill. royalties, and subconsciously shared his opinion that civilization had taken all the best from The thin man in black, whom Eric had settled down to the artistic satisfaction of describing the sensuous delight of his hero in the roasted marrow-bones heroes led, paid him handsome "A darned shame," Eric grumbled, machine back into its place, and resolved to forget that his next "red-blooded action thriller" was idea is better." "You can make a fire by rubbing sticks together, can't you?" popularity for eight years. to nature stuff"—simple lyrics of the sea, of sunsets, of bird songs, of bright flowers and warm winds, of thrilling communion with Nature, and growing things. Men read her poems and called her a genius. Even though the whole world had grown up into a city, the birds march, with a good fraction of the new planet adhering to their "Eric, darling," she said, "isn't things we both love?" "Yes, dear. Civilization has ruined the world. If we could only his own. They turned their attention to looking for banana trees, and coconut palms, but living under glass, like hot-house write about the West, Africa, South Sea Islands. But they cities, factories." "If only we lived on Venus! I was listening to a lecture on threatening to demolish it. seemingly not inconvenienced in the least by the inclement elements, your stories, to get away from this hateful civilization, and live natural lives. Maybe a rocket—" The The Cosmic Express." "The Cosmic Express?" "A new invention. Just perfected a few weeks ago, I understand. By Ludwig Von der Valls, the German physicist." "I've quit bothering about science. It has ruined nature, filled the world with silly, artificial people, doing silly, artificial things." the button, and the gay crowds in the park, and my old typewriter." the shaft whenever we pushed "But this is quite remarkable, terms both are simply etheric vibration, of different change. The disintegration of the and lead and energy . And Millikan's old proof that his Cosmic Ray is generated when particles of electricity are united to form an atom." weren't a scientist." He glowed with pride. "But the method, in the new Cosmic Express, is simply against which they had erected far higher than that of even the Cosmic Ray, and correspondingly more powerful and more penetrating." hair. "But I don't see how they the crystal block. Dizziness, insensibility get any recognizable object, not even how they get the radiation "An analogy from television might help. You know that by means of the scanning disc, the picture is transformed into mere as in television. The object is built up of an infinite series of plane layers, at the focus of the ray, no matter where that may At the end of the month he delivered his promised story to his publishers, a thrilling tale of a man marooned on Venus, with a beautiful girl. The hero made

<question>:
What is ironic about Eric's contempt for the glass edifice over New York City?

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A If the glass was penetrated, he and Nada and all of New York would immediately perish
B Its invention was inspired by the author of one of Eric's favorite science fiction novels
C Something similar might have protected him and Nada from the harsh Venusian elements
D Similar inventions are main features in his science fiction novels

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C