Deep Past: A Novel

by Eugene Linden

if consciousness is important to us, and it exists in other animals it is probably important to them.” —DONALD REDFIELD GRIFFIN

And when these winds hit, say, the Quonsets erected for the camp of an archaeological expedition, they give voice in protest, rising intermittently from a moan to a shriek and then fading, but never dying. The sound is desolation itself.

“Kazakhstan collects misfits, and being a misfit is an ancient and honorable profession.”