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.Copywrite 2014 Benson Lee GraysonSTRANGE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OMNIBUSByBenson Lee GraysonTable of Contents1.The Second Renaissance2.The Washington Spring3.Putin’s Flea4.The Mouse Who Traveled Trough Time5.Speak Of The Devil6.That Thing In The Cellar7.The Man On The Moon8.The Enemies Machine9.Mission To Earth10.Monkey Business11.You Are What You Eat12.Rocks13.Putin For President14.Erskine’s Law15.Snafu16.The Cat’s Meow17.Homo Superior18.The Perfect Drug19.Limbo20.Precepts Of Statesmanship21.Civilized?22.Admiralty Affairs23.Double Jeopardy24.Bancroft’s Time Machine25.The Enemies Machine26.Eat Up No More27.The Devil You Know28.The Vulcan Project29.Obesity30.The Seers31.The Sterling Prize32.Mad Scientist33.Avoid The Fire34.Follow The Rats35.The Probe36.School Reform37.The Submersible38.HalloweenTHE SECOND RENAISSANCEThe rebirth of knowledge of the ancients, known as the Second Renaissance, originated in Washington, D.C.in the middle of the Twenty-First Century.Its geographic location was associated with the fact that the Library of Congress, in the nation’s capital, had become the largest single repository of copies of the works of the ancients.This status had been conveyed upon it by the fact that the original documents had been destroyed during the ravaging of the libraries of Europe in the first and second world wars.The immediate cause of the Second Renaissance was the decision of the Library of Congress to copy all of its extensive holdings into a newly installed cloud computing system.The intention was to help preserve them from deterioration, and to enhance the Library’s capability to make the contents readily available to users around the country.During the work of preparing the holdings for uploading to the computers, some of the library staff happened to look at the documents, and were intrigued by what they found.They were astounded to learn that the commonly-held belief that the earth is round, and that it orbits the sun were relatively recent, and that for the greater part of man’s existence, it was understood that a flat earth is orbited each day by the sun.It was impossible to contain the news.Word of the discovery traveled rapidly among the library staff, and subsequently to outsiders.It became a hot topic of discussion in Washington political circles and along Embassy Row.Some prominent scientists, unwilling to see their scholarly reputations unravel, dismissed the new findings as an absurd superstition.They might conceivably have been successful, if they had not been publicly challenged by a few of the more progressive graduate assistants, and junior professors.A re-examination of the “proof” that the earth is round revealed that most of the claims to have circumnavigated the earth were due to navigational blunders.The apparent evidence that the earth is not flat, offered by individuals clinging to that obsolete theory, was shown to be pure fable when it was explained that a slight elevation in the center of the flat earth, which gives it the shape of an upturned saucer, accounted for the appearance of the masts of a ship before the entire vessel comes into view.Further proof became available when the U.S.Navy radio station in Guam found, in its files, a copy of the last radio transmission of the lost aviator, Amelia Earhart, on July 2, 1937, stating that she “had reached the end, and that her plane was falling into the void,” a clear reference to having flown off the rim of the world.A crucial event aiding the spread of the new learning, came when the Massachusetts legislature voted to require textbooks used in the state public schools to include material drawn from the ancient texts.Other states quickly followed suit, with only a few holdouts in the Deep South.The most rapid changes, as a result of the Second Renaissance, came in the areas of politics and government.The ancients had clearly shown the inefficiency of the democratic system.When carefully examined by the unbiased mind, it was clear that giving every person the right to vote, regardless of their intelligence, interest, or ability would produce results far less efficient than a limited franchise.Systems of weighted voting, or limiting the ballots to those over forty-five, were tried and found wanting.So too, was rule by an oligarchy.Eventually, by general consensus, it was decided to appoint a king for life.Initially, there were some attempts to limit the power of the King.These were successfully rebuffed, by citing the frequent references in the ancient documents to the divine right of Kings.Obviously, when the Almighty himself selected the proper individual to be king, it was feckless for ordinary mortals to challenge his wisdom.A logical byproduct of the adoption of an absolute monarchy was the establishment of a state church.It was correctly observed, that it made little sense to suffer the disputes among various denominations, over the technical points of doctrine.Only one religion was correct, and who better to decide on religious dogma, and head the church, than the king himself?From the political and religious sectors, the new doctrines spread to include economics.Capitalism and the free market, all economists had to agree, led to widespread waste and inefficiency.New firms kept on being established, taking on heavy infusions of cash, only to go bankrupt in the inevitable cycle of boom and bust.The obvious solution was to go back to the wisdom of the ancients, combining as many firms as possible into giant monopolies.The success of this new policy was proven, when all of the competing telephone companies were re-combined into a giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which was given a permanent monopoly position over the nation’s telephone sector.Millions of Americans cheered, when the restored telephone monopoly reinstated the long-valued abilities of subscribers, to learn the time and weather, via a simple phone call.Medical science similarly benefited, aided by the discovery that the so-called “germ theory” had been concocted by the Fenwick Pharmaceutical Company in 1897, in an effort to promote the declining sales of their products.As Dr.Amadeus Foster asked, when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine, “How can people possibly believe in a germ, which they can’t see with their own eyes?” Most scholars today credit the advances made in modern medicine, to the precept taught in scientific classes at all levels, primary, secondary and university, that no matter what the theory states, if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.It is hard for many of us living today to believe that our ancestors clung so foolishly to superstition, and ignored the advanced knowledge of the past [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]