Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In 1965, astronomers discovered that Mercury does not keep one side always to the Sun, but has a period...
Augustus: I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence,Isaac: I'm pretty sure all asses are blind,
That was your forest. Where you hunted. He came closer to the painting, gazing at the bleak, empty cold, the white and gray and brown and black. This was your life, he clarified.I was too mortified, t...
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.My fears?Yes.I fear oblivion, he said without a moment’s pause. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.Too soo...