Empire 3 Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780765319135
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2010-05-01T04:00:00+00:00
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be...
that was in an Earth of teeming billions and of unlimited food. The best that was now to be was the Sixty--and death.
Schwartz was sixty-two.
Sixty-two...
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the mind that killed
It worked out so neatly in Schwartzâs methodical mind. Since he did not want to die, he would have to leave the farm. If he stayed where he was, the Census would come, and with it, death.
Leave the farm, then. But where would he go?
There was the--what was it, a hospital?--in Chica. They had taken care of him before. And why? Because he had been a medical âcase.â But wasnât he still a case? And he could talk now; he could give them the symptoms, which he couldnât before. He could even tell them about the Mind Touch.
Or did everyone have the Mind Touch? Was there any way he could tell?...None of the others had it. Not Arbin or Loa or Grew. He knew that. They had no way of telling where he was unless they saw or heard him. Why, he couldnât beat Grew in chess if Grew could--
Wait, now, chess was a popular game. And it couldnât be played if people had the Mind Touch. Not really.
So that made him a peculiarity--a psychological specimen. It might not be a particularly gay life, being a specimen, but it would keep him alive,
And suppose one considered the new possibility that had just arisen. Suppose he were not an amnesiac but a man who had stumbled through time. Why, then, in addition to the Mind Touch, he was a man from the past. He was a historical specimen, an archaeological specimen; they couldnât kill him.
If they believed him.
Hmm, if they believed him.
That doctor would believe. He had needed a shave that morning Arbin took him to Chica. He remembered that very well. After that his hair never grew, so they must have done something to him. That meant that the doctor knew that he--he, Schwartz--had had hair on his face. Wouldnât that be significant? Grew and Arbin never shaved. Grew had once told him that only animals had hair on their face.
So he had to get to the doctor.
What was his name? Shekt?...Shekt, that was right.
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