Lost Art
Unknown
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Description
George Smith wrote Lost Art as a science fiction story for Astounding Science-Fiction. It ran in the December 1943 issue, with drawings by Orban. The tale opens with Sargon of Akkad holding court in ancient Mesopotamia. To Sargon, the stars were holes in a black bowl of sky.
Smith leaps sixty centuries ahead. Men from Earth find that Mars held a great civilization long before Christ. Its wonders survive as picture writing in half-ruined temples. A Martian father, Altas, tests his son Than in a workshop under a great tower. Than must hook up an element of a mighty beam from his father's manual. The story asks what is lost when a high art outlives the minds that made it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |