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After the Myths Went Home [MultiFormat]
eBook by Robert Silverberg
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: In the distant future of Earth, the heroes of myths of legends are brought to life for amusement ... with disastrous results.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [171 KB], Adobe Acrobat - Large Print (PDF) [172 KB], eReader (PDB) [24 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [10 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [10 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [73 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [82 KB], hiebook (KML) [81 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [11 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [39 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [18 KB]
Words: 2953
Reading time: 8-11 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
For a while in those years we were calling great ones out of the past, to find out what they were like. This was in the middle twelves--12400 to 12450, say. We called up Caesar and Antony, and also Cleopatra. We got Freud and Marx and Lenin into the same room and let them talk. We summoned Winston Churchill, who was a disappointment (he lisped and drank too much), and Napoleon, who was magnificent. We raided ten millennia of history for our sport. But after half a century of this we grew bored with our game. We were easily bored, in the middle twelves. So we started to call up the myth people, the gods and the heroes. That seemed more romantic, and this was one of Earth's romanticist eras we lived in. It was my turn then to serve as curator of the Hall of Man, and that was where they built the machine, so I watched it going up from the start. Leor the Builder was in charge. He had made the machines that called the real people up, so this was only slightly different, no real challenge to his talents. He had to feed in another kind of data, full of archetypes and psychic currents, but the essential process of reconstruction would be the same. He never had any doubt of success.
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