Assignment In The Dawn
Bryce Walton
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Description
Bryce Walton wrote the science fiction story Assignment in the Dawn, printed in Planet Stories in the fall of 1947. The tale opens with a man waking in a small bare room. Two people watch him: a woman named Frances and a man who calls him Adam and even Superman. A device has just been lifted from his head.
The stranger remembers nothing, not even who he is. Frances's voice draws him, as if she were a missing part of himself. Above them hangs a static, dying civilization, and the man, Roland, stands ready to destroy it and himself for love of her. Walton builds the story on lost memory and a nagging question: who is she, and who is he?
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bryce Walton |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |