The Man Of One Million Years

by Edward Chilvers

“What I have done, you see, is to create a chamber in which the particles control time itself, in which they do not age with time but rather exist in a state of constant harmony. Everything within that chamber is as it is, and will remain how it is forever. It cannot be damaged, it cannot be destroyed. Do you know what this means, Captain Rutherford? It means I can at last begin to create the perfect being!”

Scientific genius Harley Huxtable creates a chamber in which a single individual can survive for one million years. Benjamin Rutherford, disgraced former soldier, is the man chosen to enter the chamber in the hope that he may become the ultimate being. But as the eons pass and Rutherford's mind becomes more brilliant so that it surpasses the boundaries of rational human thought, the professor's actions will have terrible consequences for the future of humanity.

22 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2013

Reviews

[Nancy Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting Sci Fi short read. It's like artificially creating Professor Paradox from Ben 10 and then sending him to that weird futuristic episode of Itchy & Scratchy from the Simpsons where all of the Itchys have gigantic brains and slice Scratchy to pieces. The story is definitely weird and while a lot of reviewers didn't like the ending so much, I thought it was interesting. Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the ending of that borefest M Night Shyamalan film Signs.