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Shadows of Eternity

Gregory Benford
Contents ( 99)
  1. Publisher’s Notice
  2. PART 1 THE PREFECT
  3. 1.
  4. 2.
  5. 3.
  6. 4.
  7. PART 2 THE HYDROGEN WALL
  8. 1.
  9. 2.
  10. 3.
  11. PART 3 THE MILKY WAY’S LIBRARY
  12. 1.
  13. 2.
  14. 3.
  15. 4.
  16. 5.
  17. 6.
  18. 7.
  19. 8.
  20. 9.
  21. 10.
  22. 11.
  23. PART 4 FOOD TO THE SOUL
  24. 1.
  25. 2.
  26. 3.
  27. 4.
  28. 5.
  29. 6.
  30. PART 5 YTHRI
  31. 1.
  32. 2.
  33. PART 6 SHADOWS OF ETERNITY
  34. 1.
  35. 2.
  36. 3.
  37. 4.
  38. 5.
  39. 6.
  40. 7.
  41. 8.
  42. PART 7 BLOODPRIDE
  43. 1.
  44. 2.
  45. 3.
  46. 4.
  47. 5.
  48. 6.
  49. 7.
  50. 8.
  51. 9.
  52. 10.
  53. FRAQ
  54. PART 8 ORBITFALL
  55. 1.
  56. 2.
  57. FRAQ
  58. PART 9 ASCENDING EVEREST
  59. 1.
  60. 2.
  61. 3.
  62. 4.
  63. 5.
  64. 6.
  65. 7.
  66. FRAQ
  67. PART 10 BLACK SMOKER
  68. 1.
  69. PART 11 THE LATHE OF EVOLUTION
  70. 1.
  71. 2.
  72. 3.
  73. 4.
  74. 5.
  75. 6.
  76. PART 12 THE GRACE OF TRAGEDY
  77. 1.
  78. 2.
  79. 3.
  80. 4.
  81. 5.
  82. FRAQ
  83. PART 13 A WORM IN THE WELL
  84. 1.
  85. 2
  86. 3.
  87. 4.
  88. 5.
  89. PART 14 THE WORM TURNS
  90. 1.
  91. 2.
  92. 3.
  93. 4.
  94. FRAQ
  95. RACHEL
  96. AFTERWORD
  97. ORBITFALL? REALLY?
  98. TOROIDAL WORMHOLES
  99. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Shadows of Eternity, by Gregory Benford, Saga Press

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When on some gilded cloud or flower

My gazing soul would dwell an houre,

And in those weaker glories spy

Some shadows of eternity.

—Henry Vaughan, “The Retreate,” 1650

PART 1 THE PREFECT

Hidden wisdom and hidden treasure—of what use is either?

—ECCLESIASTICUS 20:30

1.

The woman who had gone in only three minutes before came back out.

“What?!” Rachel Cohen let her surprise escape.

The tall Asian woman shrugged, scowled, eyes rolling. “He just pointed to the door and frowned.”

“What did you say?”

“Well, he asked what tasks I wanted to work on. I said I could do just about anything. He asked for specifics. I didn’t really have any. So I trotted out some of the major problems I had heard of. I couldn’t say much, but some. Then he pointed to the door.” She fingered the plastic square in her hand, her shoulders slumped, and she sighed. She left on uncertain strides.

Next up for the position of Trainee Librarian was a slim man, tall and self-assured. He got a beep on his sidekick, straightened his formal Eartherstyle toga, and went in eagerly, fixed smile. All the candidates were just up from Earthside and getting used to the low grav, but this man managed a confident step and a mere bit of a bounce as he went in. And came out in five minutes. Better than the tall Asian woman, at least.

“Did he—”

“The Prefect handed me this and nodded good-bye.” The man held out the same slim plastic square, good for passage back to Earth. “He said they, the Earthside filters, had wasted both his time and mine. That I was too certain of myself to have the right frame of mind for this work.”

At least I won’t have that problem, Rachel thought. Nobody ever accused me of overconfidence.