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Resurrection
They had been cramped for space, him and his people. Obviously this new age had solved the problem better.
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First published January 1, 1957
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Robert Shea
66 books176 followersRobert Joseph Shea was a novelist and journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings.
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December 19, 2025
Short and not particularly interesting. Just an idea really.
First humanity learns to regrow people's arms and legs. Now if they have a bit of flesh from someone already dead, they can regrow the dead person and bring them back to life. This is because the bit of flesh "retains a physical 'memory' of the entire organism of which it was a part".
Cool idea, I admit, but it would have worked better as part of a larger story. Presented here as it is, it's just a bit of text that is easily forgotten.
And in the second paragraph, we are already told that the man talking "was short and stocky, with Asiatic features and a long, stringy mustache." OH! Of course, I thought. It's Gengis Khan.
Who else would it be? Old pulp and sci-fi writers sure had a thing about Gengis Khan. He seems to pop up everywhere, and constantly throughout Galactic History.
And yes, the last line of this "story" reveals that the identity of the man speaking is.......Gengis Khan.
First humanity learns to regrow people's arms and legs. Now if they have a bit of flesh from someone already dead, they can regrow the dead person and bring them back to life. This is because the bit of flesh "retains a physical 'memory' of the entire organism of which it was a part".
Cool idea, I admit, but it would have worked better as part of a larger story. Presented here as it is, it's just a bit of text that is easily forgotten.
And in the second paragraph, we are already told that the man talking "was short and stocky, with Asiatic features and a long, stringy mustache." OH! Of course, I thought. It's Gengis Khan.
Who else would it be? Old pulp and sci-fi writers sure had a thing about Gengis Khan. He seems to pop up everywhere, and constantly throughout Galactic History.
And yes, the last line of this "story" reveals that the identity of the man speaking is.......Gengis Khan.
July 31, 2025
a real short story
April 20, 2014
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cannot rate book because download is incomplete. This book is not complete, only about 5 pages long download incomplete. cannot retry download as kindle thinks it has already been downloaded.
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