Overhead and in the far distance the lights in the sky are stars. The stars they tell us we can never reach bacause they are too far away. They lie; we'll get there. If rockets won't take us, something will.
I phoned Treasure Island and asked for the head mech, Rory Bursteder. His voice come on and I said, "This is Max, Rory. How's everything?"
He said, "Max who?"
"Max No Difference," I told him.
Rory roared, "Max Andrews! You son of a bitch you, where you been the last year?"
"And he says it's a punk, junky program for me to watch, but he lets me watch it. Do you think it's a punk, junky program?"
"I don't know, Billy. I've never watched it. But whether it's punky-junky or not, if watching it makes you want to go out to the stars like Rock Blake does, then it's a good program for you to watch."
"Gee, I think too, Uncle Max. And the Captain Space program too. Gee, this afternoon he was fighting with green people with heads like lions on a plan-net of Sir--Sir--"
"Sirius?"
"That's it, Sirius. Do you think there are really green people like that up there?"
I grinned at him. "I'll show you where you can go to find out, Billy."
And I pointed out Sirius to him, the brightest star in the sky.
※"Martias and Madness"収録の"The Lights in the Sky Are Stars"(Fredric Brown氏作)及び、ハヤカワSF文庫『天の光はすべて星』(田中融二氏訳)より引用
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
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