After Ixmal
Unknown
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Description
Jeff Sutton wrote "After Ixmal," a science fiction story printed in Amazing Stories in October 1962. Virgil Finlay, signing as Finlay, drew the pictures. The blurb sets the scale in three lines: man was gone, and for seven hundred million years Ixmal brooded over the silent earth.
Ixmal is a vast, patient being who scans the world from a great rock older than time. The rock shifts slightly every few thousand years, and that does not worry him. A voice within him, Psychband, remarks that it is spring. Ixmal answers without feeling, since ten thousand springs are a moment to him. Then comes the discovery the blurb promises: he is not alone. Sutton builds his tale on the mind of a creature for whom human history is less than a blink.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |