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Be It Ever Thus
Robert Moore Williams's classic story
- GenresScience Fiction
19 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 18, 2009
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About the author
Robert Moore Williams
228 books10 followersThe prolific author Robert Moore Williams published more than 150 novels and short stories under his given name as well as a variety of pseudonyms including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon, Robert Moore, Russell Storm and E.K. Jarvis.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through 1972 and cut his teeth on such publications as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Astounding, Thrilling Wonder and Startling.
In 1955 Williams cranked out The Chaos Fighters, the first of 30 novels he would write over the next 15 years. These novels include the Jongor and ,Zanthar series. His most unusual book, however, is one that is labeled as fiction, but is actually an autobiography: Love is Forever - We Are for Tonight (Curtis 06101, 1970). In this short, 141-page work Williams presents a description of his childhood and then discusses his experimentation with hallucinogenic gasses, Dianetics and 1950s-era communes.
Williams married Margaret Jelley in 1938 and they had one child. The couple divorced in 1958. According to the Social Security Death Index, Williams died in May of 1977 in Dateland, Arizona.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through 1972 and cut his teeth on such publications as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Astounding, Thrilling Wonder and Startling.
In 1955 Williams cranked out The Chaos Fighters, the first of 30 novels he would write over the next 15 years. These novels include the Jongor and ,Zanthar series. His most unusual book, however, is one that is labeled as fiction, but is actually an autobiography: Love is Forever - We Are for Tonight (Curtis 06101, 1970). In this short, 141-page work Williams presents a description of his childhood and then discusses his experimentation with hallucinogenic gasses, Dianetics and 1950s-era communes.
Williams married Margaret Jelley in 1938 and they had one child. The couple divorced in 1958. According to the Social Security Death Index, Williams died in May of 1977 in Dateland, Arizona.
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September 28, 2022
This story was published originally in the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.
It is the second of four I will be reading by this author. There are others available at Project Gutenberg, but the four I chose to read are the ones that appealed to me the most.
Here we are visiting the Museum Of The Conquered with the graduating class of the Star Institute Of Advanced Science.
What will we see there?
Why is the instructor given a Thor gun for the visit?
Just what is this 'museum', anyway?!
"There were many such museums maintained for the purpose of allowing the people to see the greatness their ancestors had displayed in conquering this world and also to demonstrate how thorough and how complete that conquest had been."
So tell me again, why do we need that gun?!
We learn more details during the visit.
Will these details change our lives?
Time will tell.
It is the second of four I will be reading by this author. There are others available at Project Gutenberg, but the four I chose to read are the ones that appealed to me the most.
Here we are visiting the Museum Of The Conquered with the graduating class of the Star Institute Of Advanced Science.
What will we see there?
Why is the instructor given a Thor gun for the visit?
Just what is this 'museum', anyway?!
"There were many such museums maintained for the purpose of allowing the people to see the greatness their ancestors had displayed in conquering this world and also to demonstrate how thorough and how complete that conquest had been."
So tell me again, why do we need that gun?!
We learn more details during the visit.
Will these details change our lives?
Time will tell.
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