Seed of Light (1959) by Edmund Cooper

Author:Edmund Cooper [Cooper, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: 1959-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

“Hell,” said Lavoisier irritably. “If you let that child come near my logbook again, “I’ll brain it.”

He and Troy were in their private cabin. The child, Atlanta, clung to ner mother tearfully.

“Do you realize what it is, trying to bring up children in a—a tin cylinder?” she demanded with anger.

“I realize that our sweet child nearly destroyed a months work.”

“You should have microfilmed it” accused Troy. “In any case, why this breathtaking urgency? We have precious little to do, and twenty years in which to do it.” Suddenly, she giggled.

“What’s there to laugh at?” he asked truculently.

Troy threw a significant glance at Atlanta. “It has just occurred to me that there might be someone to call you grandpa by then.”

Lavoisier’s irritation subsided as quickly as it had risen. “Do you regret making the star-voyage, Troy—with me?”

“Especially not, with you.”

“In spite of the fact that Iam often bad-tempered?”

Troy smiled. “It’s better than boredom—or indifference.*’

“Don’t you ever regret leaving Europe Three?”

“What a question! Sometimes, I have a desperate desire to see streets and houses again, and different faces, and sunlight, and crops on the living soil . . When you were a child, did you ever cry for the moon?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Well, I did . . Now and again, I still feel like a child, and then I cry for the Earth… It s so long ago, it seems like a dream.”

“A dream that was once lovely and terrible,” added Lavoisier with unusual eloquence. “I know how you feel. One can go on for days without giving it any thought, then suddenly there is a sharp stab of nostalgia. I even get nostalgic for that wretched plastic dome!”

“Daddy,” said Atlanta, choosing her moment with precocious cunning, “please tell me the Story of the Farm.”

“What, again? You must have heard it hundreds of times.”

“Yes, please. I want all about the pigs and the hens and the cows and the horses, and everything.”

“You had better sit on my knee, then . …That’s better. Now, once upon a time…,”

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