CS XIII - Case and the Dreamer by Theodore Sturgeon

Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781583947579
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

Why Dolphins Don’t Bite

Dom Felix invented the Receiver. So say the almanacs. So say the encyclopedias, the infobanks, the students.

Dom Felix invented the Receiver.

Dom Felix was not educated in the theory or trained in the technology or temperamentally suited to such an endeavor, but he did indeed accomplish the greatest single upward, outward leap for his species since the taming of fire.

Dom Felix invented the Receiver not because he was inspired but because he was terrified; not because he had achieved wisdom but because he had to confront the truth. Therefore, it had been obsession that brought about the Receiver—obsession and terror.

The accepted version is that Dom Felix brought the Receiver from Earth. This is not true; it was developed on Medea more than three terrayears after he was defrosted there. He brought something, sure enough. He brought news of the Great Acceptance, that strange mixture of philosophy, religion, and logic (though it was really none of these) that had so drastically changed the face of the earth. Had it been a religion, Dom Felix might have been termed a missionary. Had it been a philosophy, he would have come as a teacher. Had its logic been pure, he might never have come at all. Nevertheless, he came, filled with the wonder of the success of his credo, eager to bring it to another world.

Defrosting is a word, and Receiver is a word; the Receiver is an ultrachron (some say “transchron”) transceiver. Humanity has always encapsulated its pivotal discoveries in a word, at one time or another. The Pill. The Church. The Bomb. The Trip. Cryogenics had nothing to do with spaceflight, the detection of the bioenergetic aura, and the subsequent development of the phase-inversion field, which became operable before freezing was even tried for the purpose. Yet defrosting was still the name of the process by which the field was shut off and the activity of every single one of the passengers’ organs (and biochemical reactions and bacilli and viruses) could resume functioning precisely as they had fifty-one terrayears earlier. He or she would then know that the Trip was over.

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