Bob Shaw by The Palace of Eternity

Author:The Palace of Eternity
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2011-12-18T14:53:03+00:00

PART TWO

The Egons

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Pain, swiftly climaxing, swiftly fading.Dislocation. Transition. Awakening.

The stars can be tasted. And heard. The stars can also be seen, in a way that is not immediately understood. Space is not black. It runs, shivers and spins with a thousand colours, of which the visible spectrum covers only a minute fraction. Most prominent in this region are beautifully pulsing and transient flowers, spallation products of heavy novadriven particles colliding with the ubiquitous hydrogen of interstellar space. The process by which this knowledge is gained is not immediately understood either.

Nearby, the generous sun swims in slow majesty, making its nourishment freely available. Closer still, a planet burns with the special, divine neural fire of an inhabited world. And the mothermass drifts all around; vast, awesome, eternal…

J think, therefore I’m alive. The incredible realization is not accompanied by shock there are no triggering glands, no bloodstream, no organic pump but Tavernor’s consciousness suddenly contracts, irislike, to the adjacent environment.

A silverblue cloud moves closer. It is a tenuous ovoid of faintly glowing gas, yet because of his new perceptions appears as a human face. It also looks like a heavilymuscled young man in warrior’s harness, a stooped old man, a smiling boy, an involute foetus merging manifestations of a single entity.

Welcome to life

Don’t be afraid

I am Labienus

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