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The Night of the Long Knives
By Fritz Leiber
- Release Date: 2015-04-22
- Genre: Science Fiction
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They were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. This is a classic tale from master storyteller Fritz Leiber, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic America. From the text “We had to agree with him there. I couldn't imagine Pop or Alice or even me cutting much of a figure (even if we weren't murder-pariahs) with the pack of geniuses that seemed to make up the Atla-Alamos crowd. The Double-A Republics, to give them a name, might have their small-brain types, but somehow I didn't think so. There must be more than one Edison-Einstein, it seemed to me, back of antigravity and all the wonders in this plane and the other things we'd gotten hints of. Also, Grayl had seemed bred for brains as well as size, even if us small mammals had cooked his goose. And none of the modern "countries" had more than a few thousand populations yet, I was pretty sure, and that hardly left room for a dumbbell class. Finally, too, I got hold of a memory I'd been reaching for the last hour ”how when I was a kid I'd read about some scientists who learned to talk Mandarin just for kicks. I told Alice and Pop. "And if that's the average Atla-Alamoser's idea of mental recreation," I said, "well, you can see what I mean." "I'll grant you they got a monopoly of brains," Pop agreed. "Not sense, though," he added doggedly. "Intellectual snobs," was Alice's comment. "I know the type and I detest it." ("You are sort of intellectual, aren't you?" Pop told her, which fortunately didn't start a riot.) Still, I guess all three of us found it fun to chew over a bit the new slant we'd gotten on two (in a way, three) of the great "countries" of the modern world. (And as long as we thought of it as fun, we didn't have to admit the envy and wistfulness that was behind our wisecracks.)
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