Eighty-Minute Hour by Brian Aldiss

Author:Brian Aldiss [Aldiss, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780007482443
Publisher: The Friday Project
Published: 2013-10-23T22:00:00+00:00

LEDA

Creation dwindled here,

The biological Big Accident

Just wasn’t ever kindled here.

Short commons are the order –

Life’s always on the border,

The season’s always stuck at Lent!

JACK

But Lent, you see, ’s a human preconception

And Mars is stuck with humans from now on;

We may not get a very warm reception,

But nor was earth a paradise bygone.

LEDA

Whatever earth was, it’s the norm –

Whatever its conditions, they are those

To which all human genes conform;

Those same metabolisms

May not withstand the schisms

This sterile planet’s norms impose.

JACK

One factor you’re forgetting – humankind

Is more than genes or programming. No curse

Mars offers can deflect the human mind;

Spirit and mind can lick the universe.

LEDA

That’s false romanticism and

Has been by scientific truth transfixed.

Both mind and spirit now must stand

Down, for environment

Is all; our lives are spent

Like any planet’s orbit, fixed.

JACK

Your life, not mine! For no research can bring

Such judgements that preempt morality;

Your thinking works like stern conditioning.

As I reject it, so my will is free!

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