The Omega Expedition (68 page)
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Authors: Brian Stableford
“
Ave atque vale! Adieu!
Good-bye!”
Those words will be long enough remembered and treasured by the inhabitants of Earth and the home system to grant Adam Zimmerman the kind of metaphorical immortality that he had once scorned. No one who heard or read them remained unmoved by them; no one who comes after us should ever dare to think them pompous or ill conceived.
We innocents of the Golden Age will continue to enjoy our Adam long after his death; the grandest and finest funeral in the history of the human race was only the first phase of our celebration.
We shall listen to his roughhewn songs and archaic speeches again and again, because those wonderful words are the one resource left to posthumankind by which we might savor, in sympathy, the bittersweetness of transience.
eBook Info
Title:
The Omega Expedition
Creator:
Brian Stableford
Date:
2002
Type:
novel
Format:
text/html
Identifier:
0-312-70943-9
Source:
Language:
en
Relation:
None
Coverage:
None
Rights:
Copyright © 2002 by Brian Stableford
Table of Contents
Eleven The Politics of Temptation
Twelve The Temptations of Paranoia
Fourteen The Garden of Excelsior
Eighteen Adam Zimmerman’s Awakening
Twenty-Seven Further Possibilities
Twenty-Eight The Mystery Unravelled
Thirty-One Alice In Wonderland
Thirty-Two Alice’s Story Continued
Thirty-Three The Symbolism of Names
Part Three Babes in the Wilderness
Thirty-Four An Untrustworthy Interlude
Thirty-Five A Stray Meditation
Thirty-Six In the Forest of Confusion
Thirty-Seven The Palace of La Reine Des Neiges
Thirty-Eight Of Mirrors and Fragments
Thirty-Nine Of Moths and Flames
Forty-Four Adam and the Angels
Forty-Seven A Matter of Life and Death
Forty-Eight There but for Fortune
Forty-Nine Madoc Tamlin’s Lostory of Religion
Fifty Madoc Tamlin’s Apology for the Children of Humankind