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Eight Keys to Eden By: Mark Clifton (1906-1963) |
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BY MARK CLIFTON
NOVELS
Eight Keys To Eden
They'd Rather Be Right
The Forever Machine NON FICTION BOOK
Opportunity Unlimited NOVELETTES
Remembrance and Reflection
How Allied
What Thin Partitions
Sense From Thought Divide
Star, Bright
Hide! Hide! Witch!
A Woman's Place
Clerical Error
What Now, Little Man?
Do Unto Others SHORT STORIES
What Have I Done?
The Conqueror
Kenzie Report
Bow Down To Them
Reward For Valour
Progress Report
Crazy Joey
We're Civilized
Solution Delayed ARTICLES
It Can't Be Done
The Dread Tomato Affliction In collaboration with Frank Riley
In collaboration with Alex Apostolides
EIGHT KEYS
TO EDEN by
Mark Clifton
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Garden City, New York
1960
All of the characters in this book
are fictitious, and any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60 9470
Copyright © 1960 by Mark Clifton
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant and
dialect spellings remain as printed. Superscript text is preceded by
the ^ symbol, bold text is shown as =bold=, and {d} represents the
Greek letter delta .
To Charles Steinberg who made writing possible for me
EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN
SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT
=1= Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without
question. =2= Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general
contrariness. =3= Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to
account for the phenomenon? =4= How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that
he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things? =5= What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the
obscure prevalent? =6= What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered
effect is really cause? =7= What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates
unperceived in all other phases of science? What if there be only
one natural law manifesting itself, as yet, to us in many facets
because we cannot apperceive the whole, of which we have gained
only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope only at
the crudest level? =And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor?=
1
One minute after the regular report call from the planet Eden was
overdue, the communications operator summoned his supervisor. His finger
hesitated over the key reluctantly, then he gritted his teeth and
pressed it down. The supervisor came boiling out of his cubicle,
half running down the long aisle between the forty operators hunched
over their panels. "What is it? What is it?" he quarreled, even before he came to a stop. "Eden's due. Overdue." The operator tried to make it laconic, but it
came out sullen. The supervisor rubbed his forehead with his knuckles and punched
irritably at some buttons on an astrocalculator. An up to the second
star map lit up the big screen at the end of the room. He didn't expect
there to be any occlusions to interfere with the communications channel.
The astrophysicists didn't set up reporting schedules to include such
blunders. But he had to check. There weren't. He heaved a sigh of exasperation. Trouble always had to come on his
shift, never anybody else's. "Lazy colonists probably neglecting to check in on time," he
rationalized cynically to the operator... Continue reading book >>
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