Eando Binder by Immortal Anton York

Author:Immortal Anton York [Anton York, Immortal]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-08-30T19:56:46+00:00

ness. I have been buried in that block of metal for a long time—since the sinking of Atlantis and Mu. How long is that?"

"Twenty thousand years!" breathed York.

"Only twenty thousand years?" The man-robot seemed astonished. "I had thought it to be much longer—almost eternity!"

York and Vera looked at each other. Before, after only one hour, they had felt themselves going mad. How had this mind, human though metal-housed, survived two hundred centuries!

Kaligor caught their amazement.

"It is a long, queer story," he vouched. "I nearly did go mad, in the first few hours. Then I took hold of myself and saw that I could save sanity only by rigid mental discipline. There was only one answer—escape fantasies of my own devising. I must have some one thing, a complicated path, along which my thoughts could wind slowly. In those twenty thousand years I have devised, mentally, an entire new Universe! In a framework of six-dimensional geometry!"

He paused, then went on. "I meticulously thought out each separate sun, its weight, size, brilliance, spectrum, and so on. Finishing this, possibly within a century, I took one particular sun, pictured a mythical system of planets around it, and worked out all the elaborate details of their orbits, satellites, eclipses, and such. Still I found I must go on!"

"You hoped for rescue all that time!" cried York. "For twenty thousand years?"

Surely, in all eternity, there had never been a longer wait!

"I've been justified, haven't I?" returned the robot-mind, with grim lightness. "Since you stand before me, my rescuers! Ah, but how slow-footed was time! I dared not stop building my fantasy world. At that moment I would go insane, realizing my hopeless predicament. To get into greater detail, consuming more time, I peopled one of the worlds with intelligent beings, far different from humans. I devised their complete biological background, to the last cell.

"Sometimes, for what must have been days, I would wrestle with one single problem—for instance, the number of blood vessels in an inner organ. These intelligent beings, though their appearance would strike you with horror, are almost as real to me as you two now! In fact—"

He broke off, began again, his telepathic voice only now beginning to smooth its first halting pace.

"I had these imaginary beings—Wolkians, I called them 85

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