In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories by Terry Bisson

Author:Terry Bisson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

Emil was apparently on retainer, for once a year on the anniversary of his visit to Ebtacan he got a check for $100,000. But never a call. That was all right; he preferred his independence. The Flame of Zoroaster had indeed put his time gun on the map, and in the next two years he authenticated (dated) the San Gabriel Mission hearth in California (221.052 years) and a coal seam blaze on Baffin Island (797.563 years).

The time gun was an accepted archaeological tool, but after the first flurry of interest, there wasn’t much demand. How many flames need dating? Emil tried to interest astronomers, but the device didn’t seem to work at a distance. The numbers came out all wrong. According to the time gun, the stars weren’t as old as the Earth.

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