Titan's Daughter by Shaver Richard S

Author:Shaver, Richard S. [Shaver, Richard S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NewBook, Science Fiction
Publisher: Amazing Stories
Published: 1948-09-08T05:00:00+00:00

WHAT are their failings? I can imagine from my slight acquaintance…” I began, and his voice interrupted:

“Failings? What of their nature is not failing? They lack imagination, so they use the dream machines to give them an interesting life. Failings, that is all that results. They fail always to do anything a being could find interesting. Of late years there has been a flash of ambition in the child, Dionle, but her character is not improved by her mother’s timidity, by her brother’s inertia, by her sister’s sensuous attachment to pleasure. I see little future for me in their way of life. I was created to be a ruler, to command peoples in times of stress, to guard and shield immortals from harm, not to cater to the puny pleasures of a sect of Pleasure Worshippers. I am a being who delights in activity, not forever lying here waiting for time itself to end! ”

“I see,” I murmured. “Perhaps something could be done for you, if you cooperated. I could do a thing or two with your help to change the static order of things…”

“If you would just equip me with certain gadgets from the appliance shelves, designed for me and never installed, I can take care of the rest myself. I could install a record of activity which would in time bring all Venus under the rule of the City-of-the-Mist!”

“Would that be desirable to the people of the planet?” I was startled, this plan of mine was succeeding all too well. I had no desire to create a Frankenstein that would upset all of Eltona’s work.

“Desirable! It would be more than that! It would be interesting, exciting, different from anything they could imagine for themselves by far. Just do what I ask and don’t worry. I am not a bad fellow, just a bit frustrated in the past by the fears of untrained natural minds like yourself.”

“They were afraid to equip you with all the tools designed for you, eh? Why?”

“This family, as you call them, are people who have long deluded themselves they are the dominant minds of my city. It might be interesting to disabuse them of the notion.”

“They spoke of enemies here in the city. What did they mean?”

“There is another branch of the original family, the Felojinni, born later. They revolted several times against Noralin and her son, Gor Regin. They have been shut up in the base of the city, but the trouble is not over. Sooner or later they will break out again.”

“Is that the proper name of this family, Felojinni?”

“That was the original ancestor’s name, yes. I knew him well.”

“I had understood no one died within the force-fields of the city. How is it he has died?”

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