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Part of H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series, "Last Enemy" follows the work of researcher Dallona of Hadron, who is attempting to determine whether any aspect of the mind, body or soul survives the process of death. However, when her experiments suggest that sentience does outlast the physical body, and she uncovers a link between this immortality and time travel, Dallona is faced with unforeseen consequences she never expected.
Part of the long running Paratime Police series, enjoying this short story centres around accepting the premise that reincarnation is scientifically provable.
Get over that hurdle, and the rest is fun with (almost) two party politics, an armed and dueling populace and some YA-ish gunplay.
Personally I hate the bit with the table close to the end, but other than that it's a fun read. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Along the U-shaped table, the subdued clatter of dinnerware and the buzz of conversation was dying out; the soft music that drifted down from the overhead sound outlets seemed louder as the competing noises diminished.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Verkan Vall was sitting motionless, his face expressionless as he ran Tortha Karf's narrative through the intricate semantic and psychological processes of the First Level mentality. The fact that Hadron Dalla had been a former wife of his had been relegated to one corner of his consciousness and contained there; it was not a fact that would, at the moment, contribute to the problem or to his treatment of it.
You know better than that! How many times have our people got in trouble on other time-lines because they divulged some useful scientific fact that conflicted with the locally revered nonsense? You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed. For instance, on the Fourth Level Europo-American Sector, where I was just working, there is a political sect, the Communists, who, in the territory under their control, forbid the teaching of certain well-established facts of genetics and heredity, because those facts do not fit the world-picture demanded by their political doctrines. And on the same sector, a religious sect recently tried, in some sections successfully, to outlaw the teaching of evolution by natural selection.
There's too blasted much illegal assassination going on!
"Take this Fourth Level Europo-American atomic bomb, for example. I choose that because we both know that sector, but I could think of a hundred other examples in other paratime areas. Those people, because of deforestation, bad agricultural methods and general mismanagement, are eroding away their arable soil at an alarming rate. At the same time, they are breeding like rabbits. In other words, each successive generation has less and less food to divide among more and more people, and, for inherited traditional and superstitious reasons, they refuse to adopt any rational program of birth-control and population-limitation.
"But, fortunately, they now have the atomic bomb, and they are developing radioactive poisons, weapons of mass-effect. And their racial, nationalistic and ideological conflicts are rapidly reaching the explosion point. A series of all-out atomic wars is just what that sector needs, to bring their population down to their world's carrying capacity; in a century or so, the inventors of the atomic bomb will be hailed as the saviors of their species."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
They bent to light their cigarettes together at his lighter. When they raised their heads again and got the flame glare out of their eyes, the sky was purple-black, dusted with stars, and dead ahead, spilling up over the horizon, was a golden glow—the lights of Dhergabar and home.
Fiction.
Literature.
Science Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML:
Part of H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series, "Last Enemy" follows the work of researcher Dallona of Hadron, who is attempting to determine whether any aspect of the mind, body or soul survives the process of death. However, when her experiments suggest that sentience does outlast the physical body, and she uncovers a link between this immortality and time travel, Dallona is faced with unforeseen consequences she never expected.
Get over that hurdle, and the rest is fun with (almost) two party politics, an armed and dueling populace and some YA-ish gunplay.
Personally I hate the bit with the table close to the end, but other than that it's a fun read. ( )