Prologue : The Beginning of the Fourth Millennium

By Moran, Daniel Keys

Book Id: WPLBN0000670587
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	Prologue : The Beginning of the Fourth Millennium
Author:	Moran, Daniel Keys
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & thought
Collections:	The Etext Archive Collection
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Publisher:	The Etext Archive


Citation APA MLA Chicago Moran, D. K. (n.d.). Prologue : The Beginning of the Fourth Millennium. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Classic Literature

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Classic Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: The sun still set as it had for all the thousands of years that humanity had existed. Darkness gathered at the windows, and the children of the race still shivered in their beds when the night winds brought them the scent of monsters. And because the adults were busy, too busy to tend to the children, the children turned to the machines, and the computers told them stories. On that cold, dark winter night, the little girl whose name was Cia did something she had never done before; she asked the dataweb to tell her a story, and she did not specify - not the story, nor the teller. A holograph appeared in her bedroom. It shone softly, and beat back the darkness that tried to creep in through the windows. It was the holograph of a man, dressed in historical costume. Cia wasn't sure from what period the costume came; but from a long time ago, she was sure. From before the War at least.