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The Return
4 December 2007 05:29 pmAfter the success of my last free book posting, I'm emboldened to post another recommendation.
This one, alas! lacks any Saintly references. However, it has another reference, I might say theme, which is just as marvelous - to more than one reader of this blog.
To set the stage: "The Return" is a science fiction short story published in 1954. It is set in what used to be the United States, two hundred years after a nuclear war or disaster; the nation is now isolated pockets of varying levels of civilization, from animalism to futuristic technology.
But in a manner of which C. S. Lewis would wholly approve, that is merely the mechanism for setting up the fascinating situation revealed in the story. See if you can figure it out. I did - ironically - by intuition!
The Return
H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
(The HTML version available on Gutenberg includes the original black and white illustrations from Astounding Science Fiction.)
This one, alas! lacks any Saintly references. However, it has another reference, I might say theme, which is just as marvelous - to more than one reader of this blog.
To set the stage: "The Return" is a science fiction short story published in 1954. It is set in what used to be the United States, two hundred years after a nuclear war or disaster; the nation is now isolated pockets of varying levels of civilization, from animalism to futuristic technology.
But in a manner of which C. S. Lewis would wholly approve, that is merely the mechanism for setting up the fascinating situation revealed in the story. See if you can figure it out. I did - ironically - by intuition!
The Return
H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
(The HTML version available on Gutenberg includes the original black and white illustrations from Astounding Science Fiction.)
