The Weird Company: The Secret History of H. P. Lovecraft's Twentieth Century by Rawlik Pete

Author:Rawlik, Pete [Rawlik, Pete]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2014-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

From the Account of Robert Martin Olmstead

“Into the Ether”

I woke to a strange vibration, a deep melodic thrumming that makes the air electric, almost like a charged fluid. Oddly, while the sound permeated the air, the integral bench, the walls, and even the floor didn’t seem to be a conduit for the resonance. Like the exterior, the interior was a large oval, approximately one hundred feet long, comprised of the same latticework of a white material that that the exterior was. As I mentioned before, the interior was divided into three levels by two floors of the same strange material. Access between levels was accomplished by a centrally located, tightly curved ramp that reminded me of the central spiral of a conch. All of this meant that the ship was smooth and curving, completely devoid of any hard angles. One section of the curved wall was lined with dozens of cylinders, each larger than a full grown man. The other wall was lined with frosted, semi-transparent cabinets containing sundry items including bottles, jars, small idols, shelves of books, and even a stack of small gold ingots. At the far end, opposite the loading door, there was the control area. Like the rest of the ship it was smooth and white with an almost organic sense to it. The various raised panels present dozens of buttons, levers and actuators of all types. It was overwhelming to say the least.

Chandraputra was working furiously over the panels, and using his right hand, began orchestrating a series of esoteric symbols in the air above the equipment. In response a huge panel slid back along the wall and revealed a window. The window showed the village of Kingsport passing beneath us as we headed out over the ocean. “This ship,” announced Chandraputra, “is made almost entirely of solid light, a material created by the Nug Soth eons ago.”

I recognized that name from the book I had just read, I must have gasped or something because Asenath caught my eye and surreptitiously signaled me to be quiet.

“These ships can be thought of tkrt as being able to fold the very fabric of space and time around them into envelopes of the real tkrt that can then be shunted into the space in between. They are extremely fast, and tkrt can traverse the vast distances between stars in a matter of hours. However, within the boundaries of a planetary atmosphere such manipulations of tkrt the universal fabric are dangerously unstable. We will still be able to fold our way into the in-between, but we won’t tkrt be able to travel as fast as I would like. Still, we should be able to tkrt reach a velocity such that we shall be in Antarctica in a few tkrt hours with almost no problems.”

Waite chimed in a suspicious “Almost?”

Chandraputra bobbed his body up in a strange animal nod. “There are risks. Since we’ll be traveling tkrt near the speed of light in an arc, our instantaneous linear velocity at any given point may tkrt exceed the speed of light and generate some distortions in time.

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