Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet EarthPetrovic, Walter D.
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Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
Petrovic, Walter D.
Science fiction
Janis soon became pregnant with his child and eventually gave birth to
him in mid-2651 C.E.
Soon, thereafter, Janis was banished from the city and Canon took the
boy into his care, baptising him as Canis Topler. In late of that year
the Abbess Mariot, from the Abbey of Our Holy Virgins, brought to Omega
4 EAST an eleven year old girl, with a story about finding her as a
baby during a sojourn at a distant Hermitage. It was a beautiful baby
girl, wrapped in elegant and costly cloth, and resting within a cradle
overlaid in gold.
She had named the child, Sunshine, since there was the glow and light
of life which shone from the child's face. She now had brought the
girl to the city to have the child tested.
It was a brilliant child. She could not speak, however, and this
bothered the Abbess Mariot. She also wanted an explanation for the
child's speedy growth. At eleven years of age, the child already had
the appearance of a full grown woman.
Canon lusted after her.
Soon, Sunshine gave birth to the Canon's son. He was called Daey and
he proclaimed the boy as the long-awaited Saviour. He pronounced that
the new promised millennium had finally begun. This was the new age of
humanity; the year he called "ONE".
Canon compiled a book of Laws that he had told everyone was given to
him by the great God, Himself. He called the book "The Canon's Laws",
and announced that with his receipt of this book, that all which had
occurred in the "pre-history", had never happened:
"The Past is nonexistent. This is never to be questioned,
and no investigation is permitted to be conducted, in pursuit
of the question of history. History begins with "ONE".
Only that which, henceforth, occurs from the year ONE will be
recognised as history. Death, by torture, is the punishment
for this Law's transgression."
(CANON 3:18)
This passage was of the first of Canon's Laws: These Laws, to be
followed to the letter, were to be punishable upon the fear of the
most imaginable painful torture. No Law was more, important than that
of the CANON. All were the Prime Law, and all punishment was
eventual, excruciating, death. As the child, Daey, was reaching his
first year of age, Canon sacrificed the most beautiful and the most
precious of his possessions, in honour of the child's birth. This
most precious possession was the child's own mother, Sunshine. In the
weeks that followed, the child weakened and also died, and the death
was kept from the people. There was a great fear that the population
may panic if they were to hear that their "Saviour" had died, while
still in infancy.
While Dioneza studied telepathy and tried to avoid Canon, her twin
brother, Richalé, studied many subjects but he mainly concentrated on
the forbidden topic: History.
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