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On our voyage home, I saw the first signal for Earth’s departure. A giant comet appeared in the night sky – the Moon. Because we could not take the Moon with us, engines had been installed on the lunar surface to push it out of Earth’s orbit, ensuring that there would be no collision during the acceleration period.
We are a mechanical life form. Our muscles and bones are made of metals, our brains are like highly integrated chips, and electricity and magnetism are our blood. We ate the radioactive rocks of our world’s core, and they provided us with the energy we needed to survive. We were not created; we evolved naturally from extremely simple, single-celled mechanical life forms when – by pure chance – the radioactive energies formed p–n junctions in the rocks. Instead of your use of fire, our earliest ancestors discovered the use of electromagnetism. In fact, we never found fire in our world.
Mountains are universal, and we are all standing at the foot of mountains.
The architect of the Aerospace Tower, in a display of his own pathological creativity, had designed the entire building on a slant.
‘What’s wrong with idealism and faith?’
He preferred silver to gold. Silver was quiet, cold.
His tutor’s words unfurled in his mind, laying out their profession’s maxim: the gun does not care at whom it is aimed.
Through literature, he rediscovered humanity, and he marveled at the subtleties of human nature.
King of Science Fiction had grasped the essence of what it meant to be a sci-fi magazine. The soul of this literary vehicle was wonder and alienation, but high-tech fantasies had lost the ability to evoke those feelings. Technological miracles were trite: they happened every day. It was low-tech fantasies that awed and unsettled modern readers. So the editors developed a subgenre known as ‘counter-wave science fiction’ that imagined an unsophisticated future era.
This was easy to understand: our current literature on energy science contained no information on how to make fire from sticks.
