Category: Short Stories
_The science of language--an overly-neglected field for the extrapolations of science-fiction--is put to brilliant use in this powerful story. Against a background of ultimate peril from a galactic invader, man (in this case, woman) goes back beyond Babel to recall for humanit...
_The science of language--an overly-neglected field for the extrapolations of science-fiction--is put to brilliant use in this powerful story. Against a background of ultimate p...
2. Part 2"He predicts that we will fail--that the human race will be destroyed. He is very old and very cynical for a monk. He thinks it is a good thing that all human striving must even...
3. Part 3"The fellow the confidence men choose for a victim." Langsmith re-lighted his pipe, extinguished the match by shaking it. "Dr. Millar, we have a very painful disclosure to make...
4. Part 4Francine broke off. She felt that she had just awakened from a lifelong daze, but that this clarity of thought-cum-action was a delicate thing she could lose in the wink of an eye.