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The Way of Flesh [MultiFormat]
eBook by Paul Levinson

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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: An archaeologist on a distant planet reveals the strange set of circumstances that led to the extinction of a once-thriving, highly intelligent and accomplished civilization: their road to ruin began when they outlawed public flirting...

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2002


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I walked up to the podium and blinked in the bright lights.

The audience in front of me seemed as far away as the larger audience on the thousand inhabited worlds in our net.

I cleared my throat for effect and began.

"One of the central mysteries that yet alludes our understanding is the sudden dissipation of seemingly robust civilizations. On too many planets we find what looks like a thriving culture--with spires as high and as intricate as those known on our own worlds--abandoned with barely a trace of the intelligent life that built them. It's almost as if everyone went home for a lunch break, and never returned.

"Our usual assumption in such cases, as you know, is disease or some other physical culprit--a dramatic change in climate, for instance, that may have rendered agriculture and aquaculture unproductive.

"But recent evidence uncovered by my colleagues and me on a distant planet have suggested another cause.


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