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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
Page 27
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27. Return To The Future ************************************************************ I think they found it. But why these ruins? What happened afterward? And you . . ." Myron paused. "Matching wits against brawn . . . the flash of the beasts of the Jersey plains. While waiting for your return." Her countenance clouded. "And now all my people are gone, dying with the conviction in their hearts that their efforts would not be in vain." #Myon said: "I was never here before." The girl roused from her unhappy recollections. "Ah, but it's you who doesn't understand! You see, we have known of your coming, ever since you departed from the eve of the year 3000! Although it has been but a matter of about half a day to you, , yet, to us, the time involve amounts to some 570 years! The Age of Futility desecrated your name and your doings, although later generations were more reserved in their opinion. They were skeptical and it was from these people that my ancestors developed their broadminded ultimatum; and they were the only ones broadminded enough to see in your return the salvation of the race. Thus you exist in the dead memories of the late generations of mankind as a kind of a god . . . their sole hope upon which hangs the fate of generations yet unborn." "But what is this era you call the Age of Futility; and what have the people of that era attributed to ### me?" demanded Myron. "They blame you for being the Revealer of the terrible future, which led them into
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27. Return To The Future ************************************************************ I think they found it. But why these ruins? What happened afterward? And you . . ." Myron paused. "Matching wits against brawn . . . the flash of the beasts of the Jersey plains. While waiting for your return." Her countenance clouded. "And now all my people are gone, dying with the conviction in their hearts that their efforts would not be in vain." #Myon said: "I was never here before." The girl roused from her unhappy recollections. "Ah, but it's you who doesn't understand! You see, we have known of your coming, ever since you departed from the eve of the year 3000! Although it has been but a matter of about half a day to you, , yet, to us, the time involve amounts to some 570 years! The Age of Futility desecrated your name and your doings, although later generations were more reserved in their opinion. They were skeptical and it was from these people that my ancestors developed their broadminded ultimatum; and they were the only ones broadminded enough to see in your return the salvation of the race. Thus you exist in the dead memories of the late generations of mankind as a kind of a god . . . their sole hope upon which hangs the fate of generations yet unborn." "But what is this era you call the Age of Futility; and what have the people of that era attributed to ### me?" demanded Myron. "They blame you for being the Revealer of the terrible future, which led them into
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