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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Subjectivity + +Author: Norman Spinrad + +Illustrator: Leo Summers + +Release Date: December 21, 2009 [EBook #30722] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUBJECTIVITY *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction January 1964. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img class="img1" src="images/image_001.jpg" width="400" height="469" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>subjectivity</h1> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Boredom on a long, interstellar trip can be quite a problem +... but the entertainment technique the government dreamed +up for this one was a leeetle too good...!</p></div> +<p> </p> +<h2>NORMAN SPINRAD</h2> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrated by Leo Summers</h3> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="13" height="50" /></div> +<p>nterplanetary flight having been perfected, the planets and moons of +the Sol system having been colonized, Man turned his attention to the +stars.</p> + +<p>And ran into a stone wall.</p> + +<p>After three decades of trying, scientists reluctantly concluded that a +faster-than-light drive was an impossibility, at least within the +realm of any known theory of the Universe. They gave up.</p> + +<p>But a government does not give up so easily, especially a unified +government which already controls the entire habitat of the human +race. <i>Most</i> especially a psychologically and sociologically +enlightened government which sees the handwriting on the wall, and has +already noticed the first signs of racial claustrophobia—an +objectless sense of frustrated rage, increases in senseless crimes, +proliferation of perversions and vices of every kind. Like grape juice +sealed in a bottle, the human race had begun to ferment.</p> + +<p>Therefore, the Solar Government took a slightly different point of +view towards interstellar travel—Man <i>must</i> go to the stars. Period. +Therefore, Man <i>will</i> go to the stars.</p> + +<p>If the speed of light could not be exceeded, then Man would go to the +stars within that limit.</p> + +<p>When a government with tens of billions of dollars to spend becomes +monomaniacal, Great Things can be accomplished. Also, unfortunately, +Unspeakable Horrors.</p> + +<p><i>Stage One</i>: A drive was developed which could propel a spaceship at +half the speed of light. This was merely a matter of technological +concentration, and several billion dollars.</p> + +<p><i>Stage Two</i>: A ship was built around the drive, and outfitted with +every conceivable safety device. A laser-beam communication system was +installed, so that Sol could keep in contact with the ship all the way +to Centaurus. A crew of ten carefully screened, psyched and trained +near-supermen was selected, and the ship was launched on a +sixteen-year round-trip to Centaurus.</p> + +<p>It never came back.</p> + +<p>Two years out, the ten near-supermen became ten raving maniacs.</p> + +<p>But the Solar Government did not give up. The next ship contained five +near-supermen, and five near-superwomen.</p> + +<p>They only lasted for a year and a half.</p> + +<p>The Solar Government intensified the screening process. The next ship +was manned by ten bona-fide supermen.</p> + +<p>They stayed sane for nearly three years.</p> + +<p>The Solar Government sent out a ship containing five supermen and five +superwomen. In two years, they had ten super-lunatics.</p> + +<p>The psychologists came to the unstartling conclusion that even the +cream of humanity, in a sexually balanced crew, could not stand up +psychologically to sixteen years in a small steel womb, surrounded by +billions of cubic miles of nothing.</p> + +<p>One would have expected reasonable men to have given up.</p> + +<p>Not the Solar Government. Monomania had produced Great Things, in the +form of a c/2 drive. It now proceeded to produce Unspeakable Horrors.</p> + +<p>The cream of the race had failed, reasoned the Solar Government, +therefore, we will give the dregs a chance.</p> + +<p>The fifth ship was manned by homosexuals. They lasted only six months. +A ship full of lesbians bettered that by only two weeks.</p> + +<p>Number Seven was manned by schizophrenics. Since they were <i>already</i> +mad, they did not go crazy. Nevertheless, they did not come back. +Number Eight was catatonics. Nine was paranoids. Ten was sadists. +Eleven was masochists. Twelve was a mixed crew of sadists and +masochists. No luck.</p> + +<p>Maybe it was because thirteen was still a mystic number, or maybe it +was merely that the Solar Government was running out of ideas. At any +rate, ship Number Thirteen was the longest shot of all.</p> + +<p><i>Background</i>: From the beginnings of Man, it had been known that +certain plants—mushrooms, certain cacti—produced intense +hallucinations. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists—and others +less scientifically minded—had begun to extract those hallucinogenic +compounds, chiefly mescaline and psilocybin. The next step was the +synthesis of hallucinogens—L.S.D. 25 was the first, and it was far +more powerful than the extracts.</p> + +<p>In the next few centuries, more and more different hallucinogens were +synthesized—L.S.D. 105, Johannic acid, huxleyon, baronite.</p> + +<p>So by the time the Solar Government had decided that the crew of ship +Number Thirteen would attempt to cope with the terrible reality of +interstellar space by denying that reality, they had quite an +assortment of hallucinogens to choose from.</p> + +<p>The one they chose was a new, as-yet-untested ("Two experiments for +the price of one," explained economy-minded officials) and +unbelievably complex compound tentatively called Omnidrene.</p> + +<p>Omnidrene was what the name implied—a hallucinogen with all the +properties of the others, some which had proven to be all its own, and +some which were as yet unknown. As ten micrograms was one day's dose +for the average man, it was the ideal hallucinogen for a starship.</p> + +<p>So they sealed five men and five women—they had given up on sexually +unbalanced crews—in ship Number Thirteen, along with half a ton of +Omnidrene and their fondest wishes, pointed the ship towards +Centaurus, and prayed for a miracle.</p> + +<p>In a way they could not possibly have foreseen, they got it.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>As starship Thirteen passed the orbit of Pluto, a meeting was held, +since this could be considered the beginning of interstellar space.</p> + +<p>The ship was reasonably large—ten small private cabins, a bridge that +would only be used for planetfalls, large storage areas, and a big +common room, where the crew had gathered.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/image_002.jpg" width="450" height="380" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>They were sitting in All-Purpose Lounges, arranged in a circle. A few +had their Lounges at full recline, but most preferred the upright +position.</p> + +<p>Oliver Brunei, the nominal captain, had just opened the first case of +Omnidrene, and taken out a bottle of the tiny pills.</p> + +<p>"This, fellow inmates," he said, "is Omnidrene. The time has come for +us to indulge. The automatics are all set, we won't have to do a thing +we don't want to for the next eight years."</p> + +<p>He poured ten of the tiny blue pills into the palm of his right hand. +"On Earth, they used to have some kind of traditional ceremony when a +person crossed the equator for the first time. Since we are crossing a +far more important equator, I thought we should have some kind of +ceremony."</p> + +<p>The crew squirmed irritably.</p> + +<p>I <i>do</i> tend to be verbose, Brunei thought.</p> + +<p>"Well ... anyway, I just thought we all oughta take the first pills +together," he said, somewhat defensively.</p> + +<p>"So come on, Ollie," said a skinny, sour-looking man of about thirty +years.</p> + +<p>"O.K., Lazar, O.K." Marashovski's gonna be trouble, Brunei thought. +Why did they put <i>him</i> on the ship?</p> + +<p>He handed the pills around. Lazar Marashovski was about to gulp his +down.</p> + +<p>"Wait a minute!" said Brunei. "Let's all do it together."</p> + +<p>"One, two, <i>three</i>!"</p> + +<p>They swallowed the pills. In about ten minutes, thought Brunei, we +should be feeling it.</p> + +<p>He looked at the crew. Ten of us, he thought, ten brilliant misfits. +Lazar, who has spent half his life high on baronite; Vera Galindez, +would-be medium, trying to make herself telepathic with mescaline; +Jorge Donner.... Why is <i>he</i> here?</p> + +<p>Me, at least with me it's simple—this or jail.</p> + +<p>What a crew! Drug addicts, occultists, sensationalists ... <i>and what +else?</i> What makes a person do a thing like this?</p> + +<p>It'll all come out, thought Brunei. In sixteen years, it'll all come +out.</p> + +<p>"Feel anything yet, Ollie?" said Marsha Johnson. No doubt why <i>she</i> +came along. Just an ugly old maid liking the idea of being cooped up +with five men.</p> + +<p>"Nothing yet," said Brunei.</p> + +<p>He looked around the room. Plain steel walls, lined with cabinets full +of Omnidrene on two sides, viewscreen on the ceiling, bare floor, the +other two walls decked out like an automat. Plain, gray steel +walls....</p> + +<p><i>Then why were the gray steel walls turning pink?</i></p> + +<p>"Oh, oh ..." said Joby Krail, rolling her pretty blond head, "oh, oh ... +here it comes. The walls are dancing...."</p> + +<p>"The ceiling is a spiral," muttered Vera, "a winding red spiral."</p> + +<p>"O.K., fellow inmates," said Brunei, "it's hitting." Now the walls +were red, bright fire-engine red, and they were melting. No, not +melting, but evaporating....</p> + +<p>"Like crystal it is," said Lin Pey, waving his delicate oriental +hands, "like jade as transparent as crystal."</p> + +<p>"There is a camel in the circle," said Lazar, "a brown camel."</p> + +<p>"Let's all try and see the camel together," said Vera Galindez +sharply. "Tell us what it looks like, Lazar."</p> + +<p>"It's brown, it's the two-humped kind, it has a two-foot tail."</p> + +<p>"And big feet," said Lin Pey.</p> + +<p>"A stupid face," said Donner.</p> + +<p>"Very stupid."</p> + +<p>"Your camel is a great bore," said the stocky, scowling Bram Daker.</p> + +<p>"Let's have something else," said Joby.</p> + +<p>"Okay," replied Brunei, "now someone else tell what they see."</p> + +<p>"A lizard," said Linda Tobias, a strange, somber girl, inclined to the +morbid.</p> + +<p>"A lizard?" squeaked Ingrid Solin.</p> + +<p>"No," said Lin Pey, "a dragon. A green dragon, with a forked red +tongue...."</p> + +<p>"He has little useless wings," said Lazar.</p> + +<p>"He is totally oblivious to us," said Vera.</p> + +<p>Brunei saw the dragon. It was five feet long, green and scaly. It was +a conventional dragon, except for the most bovine expression in its +eyes....</p> + +<p>Yes, he thought, the dragon is <i>here</i>. But the greater part of him +knew that it was an illusion.</p> + +<p>How long would this go on?</p> + +<p>"It's <i>good</i> that we see the same things," said Marsha. "Let's always +see the same things...."</p> + +<p>"Yes."</p> + +<p>"Yes!"</p> + +<p>"Now a mountain, a tall blue mountain."</p> + +<p>"With snow on the peak."</p> + +<p>"Yes, and clouds...."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>One week out</i>:</p> + +<p>Oliver Brunei stepped into the common room. Lin Pey, Vera, and Lazar +were sitting together, on what appeared to be a huge purple toadstool.</p> + +<p>But that's <i>my</i> hallucination, thought Brunei. <i>At least, I think it +is.</i></p> + +<p>"Hello Ollie," said Lazar.</p> + +<p>"Hi. What're you doing?"</p> + +<p>"We're looking at the dragon again," said Vera. "Join us?"</p> + +<p>Brunei thought of the dragon for a moment. The toadstool disappeared, +and the by-now-familiar bovine dragon took its place. In the last few +days, they had discovered that if any two of them concentrated on +something long enough to "materialize" it, anyone else who wanted to +could see it in a moment.</p> + +<p>"What's so interesting about that silly dragon?" said Brunei.</p> + +<p>"How about the camel?" said Lazar.</p> + +<p>The dragon turned into the two-humped brown camel.</p> + +<p>"Phooey!" said Lin Pey.</p> + +<p>"O.K.," said Vera, "so what do you want?"</p> + +<p>Lin Pey thought for a moment.</p> + +<p>"How about a meadow?" he said. "A soft lawn of green grass, the sky is +blue, and there are a few white clouds...."</p> + +<p>"Clover is blooming," said Lazar. "Smell it."</p> + +<p>Brunei reclined on the soft green grass. The smell of the earth +beneath him was warm and moist. "A few apple trees here and there," he +said, and there was shade.</p> + +<p>"Look over the hill!" said Lazar. "There's the dragon!"</p> + +<p>"Will you <i>please</i> get rid of that dragon?" snapped Brunei.</p> + +<p>"O.K., Ollie, O.K."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>One month out</i>:</p> + +<p>"Get out of the way!" yelled Brunei. He gave the dragon a kick. It +mooed plaintively.</p> + +<p>"That wasn't very nice, Ollie," said Lazar.</p> + +<p>"That dragon is always underfoot," said Brunei. "Why don't you get rid +of it?"</p> + +<p>"I've taken a liking to it," said Lazar. "Besides, what about your +Saint Bernard?"</p> + +<p>"This ship is getting too cluttered up with everyone's +hallucinations," said Brunei. "Ever since ... when was it, a week +ago?... ever since we've been able to conjure 'em up by ourselves, and +make everyone else see 'em."</p> + +<p>Daker dematerialised the woman on his lap. "Why don't we get +together?" he said.</p> + +<p>"Get together?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. We could agree on an environment. Look at this common room for +example. What a mess! Here, it's a meadow, there it's a beach, a +palace, a boudoir."</p> + +<p>"You mean we should make it the same for all of us?" asked Lazar.</p> + +<p>"Sure. We can have whatever we want in our cabins, but let's make some +sense out of the common room."</p> + +<p>"Good idea," said Brunei. "I'll call the others."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>Three months out</i>:</p> + +<p>Brunei stepped through the stuccoed portal, and into the central +Spanish garden. He noticed that the sky was blue, with a few fleecy +white clouds.</p> + +<p>But then, the weather was always good. They had agreed on it.</p> + +<p>Lazar, Ingrid, Lin Pey and Vera were sitting on the green lawn +surrounding the fountain.</p> + +<p>Daker, Joby, Linda and Donner preferred the shade, and lounged against +the white arabesqued wall which enclosed the garden on four sides, +broken only by four arched entrance portals.</p> + +<p>The garden had been a good compromise, thought Brunei. Something for +everyone. Fresh air and sun-shine, but also the mental security +offered by the walls, which also provided shade for those who wanted +it. A fountain, a few palm trees, grass, flowers, even the little +formal Japanese rock garden that Lin Pey had insisted on.</p> + +<p>"Hello, Ollie," said Lazar. "Nice day."</p> + +<p>"Isn't it always?" replied Brunei. "How about a little shower?"</p> + +<p>"Maybe tomorrow."</p> + +<p>"I notice a lot of sleeping people today," said Brunei.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Lin Pey. "By now, the garden seems to be able to maintain +itself."</p> + +<p>"You think it has a separate existence?" asked Ingrid.</p> + +<p>"Of course not," said Vera. "Our subconscious minds are maintaining +it. It's probably here when we're all asleep."</p> + +<p>"No way of telling <i>that</i>," said Brunei. "Besides, how can it exist +when we're asleep, when it doesn't really exist to begin with?"</p> + +<p>"Semantics, Ollie, semantics."</p> + +<p>Brunei took a bottle of Omnidrene out of his pocket. "Time to charge +up the old batteries again," he said.</p> + +<p>He passed out the pills.</p> + +<p>"I notice Marsha is still in her cabin."</p> + +<p>"Yeah," said Lazar, "she keeps to herself a lot. No great—"</p> + +<p>Just then, Marsha burst into the garden, screaming: "Make it go away! +Make it go away!"</p> + +<p>Behind her slithered a gigantic black snake, with a head as big as a +horse's, and bulging red eyes.</p> + +<p>"I thought we agreed to leave our private hallucinations in our +cabins," snapped Brunei.</p> + +<p>"I tried! I tried! I <i>don't want</i> it around, but it won't go away! Do +something!"</p> + +<p>Ten feet of snake had already entered the garden. The thing seemed +endless.</p> + +<p>"Take it easy," said Lazar. "Let's all concentrate and think it away."</p> + +<p>They tried to erase the snake, but it just rolled its big red eyes.</p> + +<p>"That won't work," said Vera. "Her subconscious is still fighting us. +Part of her must <i>want</i> the snake here. We've <i>all</i> got to be together +to erase it."</p> + +<p>Marsha began to cry. The snake advanced another two feet.</p> + +<p>"Oh, quiet!" rasped Lazar. "Ollie, do I have your permission to bring +my dragon into the garden? He'll make short work of the snake."</p> + +<p>Brunei scowled. "You and your dragon.... Oh, maybe it'll work."</p> + +<p>Instantly, the green dragon was in the garden. But it was no longer +five feet long and bovine.</p> + +<p>It was a good twelve feet long, with cold reptilian eyes and big +yellow fangs.</p> + +<p>It took one look at the snake, opened its powerful jaws, and belched a +huge tongue of orange flame.</p> + +<p>The serpent was incinerated. It disappeared.</p> + +<p>Brunei was trembling. "What happened, Lazar?" he said. "That's not the +same stupid little dragon."</p> + +<p>"Hah ... hah...." squeaked Lazar. "He's ... uh ... grown...."</p> + +<p>Brunei suddenly noticed that Lazar was ashen. He also noticed that the +dragon was turning in their direction.</p> + +<p>"Get it out of here, Lazar! Get it out of here!"</p> + +<p>Lazar nodded. The dragon flickered and went pale, but it was over a +minute before it disappeared entirely.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>Six months out</i>:</p> + +<p><i>Things</i> wandered the passageways and haunted the cabins. Marsha's +snake was back. There was Lazar's dragon, which seemed to grow larger +every day. There was also a basilisk, a pterodactyl, a vampire bat +with a five-foot wingspread, an old-fashioned red spade-tailed demon +and other assorted horrors.</p> + +<p>Even Oliver Brunei's friendly Saint Bernard had grown to monstrous +size, turned pale green, and grown large yellow fangs.</p> + +<p>Only the Spanish garden in the common room was free of the +monstrosities. Here, the combined conscious minds of the ten crew +members were still strong enough to banish the rampaging +hallucinations.</p> + +<p>The ten of them sat around the fountain, which seemed a shade less +sparkling.</p> + +<p>There were even rainclouds in the sky.</p> + +<p>"I don't like it," said Bram Daker. "It's getting completely out of +control."</p> + +<p>"So we just have to stay in the garden, that's all," said Brunei. "The +food's all here, and so is the Omnidrene. And <i>they</i> can't come here."</p> + +<p>"Not yet," said Marsha.</p> + +<p>They all shuddered.</p> + +<p>"What went wrong?" asked Ingrid.</p> + +<p>"Nothing," said Donner. "They didn't know what would happen when they +sent us out, so we can't say they were <i>wrong</i>."</p> + +<p>"Very comforting," croaked Lazar. "But can someone tell me why we +can't control <i>them</i> any more?"</p> + +<p>"Who knows?" said Brunei. "At least we can keep them out of here. +That's—"</p> + +<p>There was a snuffling at the wall. The head of something like a +Tyrannosaurus Rex peered over the wall at them.</p> + +<p>"Ugh!" said Lin Pey. "I think that's a new one."</p> + +<p>The dragon's head appeared alongside the Tyrannosaur's.</p> + +<p>"Well, at least <i>there's</i> a familiar face," tittered Linda.</p> + +<p>"Very funny."</p> + +<p>Marsha screamed. The huge black snake thrust its head through a +portal.</p> + +<p>And the flap of leathery wings could be heard. And the smell of +sulphur.</p> + +<p>"Come on! Come on!" shouted Brunei. "Let's get these things out of +here!"</p> + +<p>After five minutes of intense group concentration, the last of the +horrors was banished.</p> + +<p>"It was a lot harder this time," said Daker.</p> + +<p>"There were more of them," said Donner.</p> + +<p>"They're getting stronger and bolder."</p> + +<p>"Maybe some day they'll break through, and...." Lin Pey let the +sentence hang. Everyone supplied his own ending.</p> + +<p>"Don't be ridiculous!" snapped Brunei. "They're not real. <i>They can't +kill us!</i>"</p> + +<p>"Maybe we should stop taking the Omnidrene?" suggested Vera, without +very much conviction.</p> + +<p>"At <i>this</i> point?" said Brunei. He shuddered. "If the garden +disappeared, and we had nothing but the bare ship for the next fifteen +and a half years, and we <i>knew</i> it, and at the same time knew that we +had the Omnidrene to bring it back.... How long do you think we'd hold +off?"</p> + +<p>"You're right," said Vera.</p> + +<p>"We just have to stick it out," said Brunei. "Just remember: <i>They +can't kill us. They aren't real.</i>"</p> + +<p>"Yes," the crew whispered in a tiny, frail voice, "they aren't +real...."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>Seven months out</i>:</p> + +<p>The garden was covered with a gloomy gray cloud layer. Even the +"weather" was getting harder and harder to control.</p> + +<p>The crew of starship Number Thirteen huddled around the fountain, +staring into the water, trying desperately to ignore the snufflings, +flappings, wheezes and growls coming from outside the walls. But +occasionally, a scaly head would raise itself above the wall, or a +pterodactyl or bat would flap overhead, and there would be violent +shudders.</p> + +<p>"I still think we should stop taking the Omnidrene," said Vera +Galindez.</p> + +<p>"If we stopped taking it," asked Brunei, "which would disappear first, +<i>them</i> ... <i>or the garden?</i>"</p> + +<p>Vera grimaced. "But we've got to do something," she said. "We can't +even make them disappear at all, any more. And it's becoming a full +time job just to keep them outside the walls."</p> + +<p>"And sooner or later," interjected Lazar, "we're <i>not</i> going to be +strong enough to keep them out...."</p> + +<p>"<i>Brr!</i>"</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/image_003.jpg" width="450" height="356" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>"The snake! The snake!" screamed Marsha. "It's coming in again!"</p> + +<p>The huge black head was already through a portal.</p> + +<p>"Stop the snake, everyone!" yelled Brunei. Eyes were riveted on the +ugly serpent, in intense concentration.</p> + +<p>After five minutes, it was obviously a stalemate. The snake had not +been able to advance, nor could the humans force it to retreat.</p> + +<p>Then smoke began to rise behind the far wall.</p> + +<p>"The dragon's burning down the wall!" shrieked Lazar. "Stop him!"</p> + +<p>They concentrated on the dragon. The smoke disappeared.</p> + +<p>But the snake began to advance again.</p> + +<p>"They're too strong!" moaned Brunei. "We can't hold them back."</p> + +<p>They stopped the snake for a few moments, but the smoke began to +billow again.</p> + +<p>"They're gonna break through!" screamed Donner. "We can't stop 'em!"</p> + +<p>"What are we gonna do?"</p> + +<p>"Help!"</p> + +<p>Creakings, cracklings, groanings, as the walls began to crack and +blister and shake.</p> + +<p>Suddenly Bram Daker stood up, his dark eyes aflame.</p> + +<p>"Only one thing's strong enough!" he bellowed. "Earth! <i>Earth!</i> EARTH! +Think of Earth! All of you! We're back on Earth. Visualize it, make it +real, and the monsters'll have to disappear."</p> + +<p>"But <i>where</i> on Earth?" said Vera, bewildered.</p> + +<p>"The Spaceport!" shouted Brunei. "The Spaceport! We all remember the +Spaceport."</p> + +<p>"We're back on Earth! The Spaceport!"</p> + +<p>"Earth!"</p> + +<p>"<i>Earth!</i>"</p> + +<p>"EARTH! EARTH!"</p> + +<p>The garden was beginning to flicker. It became red, orange, yellow, +green, blue, violet, invisible; then back again through the spectrum +the other way—violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, invisible.</p> + +<p>Back and forth, like a pendulum through the spectrum....</p> + +<p>Oliver Brunei's head hurt unbearably, he could see the pain on the +other faces, but he allowed only one thought to fill his +being—<i>Earth! The Spaceport! EARTH!</i></p> + +<p>More and more, faster and faster, the garden flickered, and now it was +the old common room again, and <i>that</i> was flickering.</p> + +<p>Light was flickering, mind was flickering, time, too, seemed to +flicker....</p> + +<p><i>Only Earth!</i> thought Brunei. Earth doesn't flicker, the Spaceport +doesn't flicker.</p> + +<p>Earth! EARTH!</p> + +<p>Now all the flickerings, of color, time, mind and dimensions, were +coalescing into one gigantic vortex, that was a thing neither of time, +nor space, nor mind, but all three somehow fused into one....</p> + +<p>They're screaming! Brunei thought. Listen to the horrible screams! +Suddenly he noticed that he, too, was screaming.</p> + +<p>The vortex was growing, swirling, undulating, and it, too, began to +flicker....</p> + +<p>There was an unbearable, impossible pain, and....</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>The sight of starship Number Thirteen suddenly appearing out of +nowhere, and sitting itself calmly down in the middle of the Spaceport +was somewhat disconcerting to the Spaceport officials. Especially +since at the very moment it appeared, and even afterward, they +continued to have visual and laser contact with its image, over three +light-months from Earth.</p> + +<p>However, the Solar Government itself was much more pragmatic. One +instant, starship Thirteen had been light-months from Earth, the next +it was sitting in the Spaceport. Therefore, starship Thirteen had +exceeded the speed of light somehow. Therefore, it was possible to +exceed the speed of light, and a thorough examination of the ship and +its contents would show <i>how</i>.</p> + +<p>Therefore.... You idiots, throw a security cordon around that ship!</p> + +<p>In such matters, the long-conditioned reflexes of the Solar Government +worked marvelously. Before the air-waves had cooled, two hundred +heavily armed soldiers had surrounded the ship.</p> + +<p>Two hours later, the Solar co-ordinator was on the scene, with ten +Orders of Sol to present to the returning heroes, and a large +well-armored vehicle to convey them to laboratories, where they would +be gone over with the proverbial fine-tooth comb.</p> + +<p>An honor guard of two hundred men standing at attention made a pathway +from the ship's main hatch to the armored carrier, in front of which +stood the Solar Co-ordinator, with his ten medals.</p> + +<p>They opened the hatch.</p> + +<p>One, two, five, seven, ten dazed and bewildered "heroes" staggered +past the honor guard, to face the Co-ordinator.</p> + +<p>He opened his mouth to begin his welcoming speech, and start the five +years of questioning and experiments which would eventually kill five +of the crew and give Man the secret of faster-than-light drive.</p> + +<p>But instead of speaking, he screamed.</p> + +<p>So did two hundred heavily armed soldiers.</p> + +<p>Because, out of starship Thirteen's main hatch sauntered a twelve-foot +green dragon, followed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a pterodactyl, a +vampire bat with a five-foot wingspan, an old-fashioned red, +spade-tailed demon, and finally, big as a horse's, the pop-eyed head +of an enormous black serpent....</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Subjectivity, by Norman Spinrad + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUBJECTIVITY *** + +***** This file should be named 30722-h.htm or 30722-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/0/7/2/30722/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Subjectivity + +Author: Norman Spinrad + +Illustrator: Leo Summers + +Release Date: December 21, 2009 [EBook #30722] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUBJECTIVITY *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction January 1964. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright + on this publication was renewed. + + + subjectivity + + + Boredom on a long, interstellar trip can be quite a problem ... but + the entertainment technique the government dreamed up for this one + was a leeetle too good...! + + + NORMAN SPINRAD + + + Illustrated by Leo Summers + + * * * * * + + + + +Interplanetary flight having been perfected, the planets and moons of +the Sol system having been colonized, Man turned his attention to the +stars. + +And ran into a stone wall. + +After three decades of trying, scientists reluctantly concluded that a +faster-than-light drive was an impossibility, at least within the +realm of any known theory of the Universe. They gave up. + +But a government does not give up so easily, especially a unified +government which already controls the entire habitat of the human +race. _Most_ especially a psychologically and sociologically +enlightened government which sees the handwriting on the wall, and has +already noticed the first signs of racial claustrophobia--an +objectless sense of frustrated rage, increases in senseless crimes, +proliferation of perversions and vices of every kind. Like grape juice +sealed in a bottle, the human race had begun to ferment. + +Therefore, the Solar Government took a slightly different point of +view towards interstellar travel--Man _must_ go to the stars. Period. +Therefore, Man _will_ go to the stars. + +If the speed of light could not be exceeded, then Man would go to the +stars within that limit. + +When a government with tens of billions of dollars to spend becomes +monomaniacal, Great Things can be accomplished. Also, unfortunately, +Unspeakable Horrors. + +_Stage One_: A drive was developed which could propel a spaceship at +half the speed of light. This was merely a matter of technological +concentration, and several billion dollars. + +_Stage Two_: A ship was built around the drive, and outfitted with +every conceivable safety device. A laser-beam communication system was +installed, so that Sol could keep in contact with the ship all the way +to Centaurus. A crew of ten carefully screened, psyched and trained +near-supermen was selected, and the ship was launched on a +sixteen-year round-trip to Centaurus. + +It never came back. + +Two years out, the ten near-supermen became ten raving maniacs. + +But the Solar Government did not give up. The next ship contained five +near-supermen, and five near-superwomen. + +They only lasted for a year and a half. + +The Solar Government intensified the screening process. The next ship +was manned by ten bona-fide supermen. + +They stayed sane for nearly three years. + +The Solar Government sent out a ship containing five supermen and five +superwomen. In two years, they had ten super-lunatics. + +The psychologists came to the unstartling conclusion that even the +cream of humanity, in a sexually balanced crew, could not stand up +psychologically to sixteen years in a small steel womb, surrounded by +billions of cubic miles of nothing. + +One would have expected reasonable men to have given up. + +Not the Solar Government. Monomania had produced Great Things, in the +form of a c/2 drive. It now proceeded to produce Unspeakable Horrors. + +The cream of the race had failed, reasoned the Solar Government, +therefore, we will give the dregs a chance. + +The fifth ship was manned by homosexuals. They lasted only six months. +A ship full of lesbians bettered that by only two weeks. + +Number Seven was manned by schizophrenics. Since they were _already_ +mad, they did not go crazy. Nevertheless, they did not come back. +Number Eight was catatonics. Nine was paranoids. Ten was sadists. +Eleven was masochists. Twelve was a mixed crew of sadists and +masochists. No luck. + +Maybe it was because thirteen was still a mystic number, or maybe it +was merely that the Solar Government was running out of ideas. At any +rate, ship Number Thirteen was the longest shot of all. + +_Background_: From the beginnings of Man, it had been known that +certain plants--mushrooms, certain cacti--produced intense +hallucinations. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists--and others +less scientifically minded--had begun to extract those hallucinogenic +compounds, chiefly mescaline and psilocybin. The next step was the +synthesis of hallucinogens--L.S.D. 25 was the first, and it was far +more powerful than the extracts. + +[Illustration] + +In the next few centuries, more and more different hallucinogens were +synthesized--L.S.D. 105, Johannic acid, huxleyon, baronite. + +So by the time the Solar Government had decided that the crew of ship +Number Thirteen would attempt to cope with the terrible reality of +interstellar space by denying that reality, they had quite an +assortment of hallucinogens to choose from. + +The one they chose was a new, as-yet-untested ("Two experiments for +the price of one," explained economy-minded officials) and +unbelievably complex compound tentatively called Omnidrene. + +Omnidrene was what the name implied--a hallucinogen with all the +properties of the others, some which had proven to be all its own, and +some which were as yet unknown. As ten micrograms was one day's dose +for the average man, it was the ideal hallucinogen for a starship. + +So they sealed five men and five women--they had given up on sexually +unbalanced crews--in ship Number Thirteen, along with half a ton of +Omnidrene and their fondest wishes, pointed the ship towards +Centaurus, and prayed for a miracle. + +In a way they could not possibly have foreseen, they got it. + + * * * * * + +As starship Thirteen passed the orbit of Pluto, a meeting was held, +since this could be considered the beginning of interstellar space. + +The ship was reasonably large--ten small private cabins, a bridge that +would only be used for planetfalls, large storage areas, and a big +common room, where the crew had gathered. + +They were sitting in All-Purpose Lounges, arranged in a circle. A few +had their Lounges at full recline, but most preferred the upright +position. + +Oliver Brunei, the nominal captain, had just opened the first case of +Omnidrene, and taken out a bottle of the tiny pills. + +"This, fellow inmates," he said, "is Omnidrene. The time has come for +us to indulge. The automatics are all set, we won't have to do a thing +we don't want to for the next eight years." + +He poured ten of the tiny blue pills into the palm of his right hand. +"On Earth, they used to have some kind of traditional ceremony when a +person crossed the equator for the first time. Since we are crossing a +far more important equator, I thought we should have some kind of +ceremony." + +The crew squirmed irritably. + +I _do_ tend to be verbose, Brunei thought. + +"Well ... anyway, I just thought we all oughta take the first pills +together," he said, somewhat defensively. + +"So come on, Ollie," said a skinny, sour-looking man of about thirty +years. + +"O.K., Lazar, O.K." Marashovski's gonna be trouble, Brunei thought. +Why did they put _him_ on the ship? + +He handed the pills around. Lazar Marashovski was about to gulp his +down. + +"Wait a minute!" said Brunei. "Let's all do it together." + +"One, two, _three_!" + +They swallowed the pills. In about ten minutes, thought Brunei, we +should be feeling it. + +He looked at the crew. Ten of us, he thought, ten brilliant misfits. +Lazar, who has spent half his life high on baronite; Vera Galindez, +would-be medium, trying to make herself telepathic with mescaline; +Jorge Donner.... Why is _he_ here? + +Me, at least with me it's simple--this or jail. + +What a crew! Drug addicts, occultists, sensationalists ... _and what +else?_ What makes a person do a thing like this? + +It'll all come out, thought Brunei. In sixteen years, it'll all come +out. + +"Feel anything yet, Ollie?" said Marsha Johnson. No doubt why _she_ +came along. Just an ugly old maid liking the idea of being cooped up +with five men. + +"Nothing yet," said Brunei. + +He looked around the room. Plain steel walls, lined with cabinets full +of Omnidrene on two sides, viewscreen on the ceiling, bare floor, the +other two walls decked out like an automat. Plain, gray steel +walls.... + +_Then why were the gray steel walls turning pink?_ + +"Oh, oh ..." said Joby Krail, rolling her pretty blond head, "oh, oh ... +here it comes. The walls are dancing...." + +"The ceiling is a spiral," muttered Vera, "a winding red spiral." + +"O.K., fellow inmates," said Brunei, "it's hitting." Now the walls +were red, bright fire-engine red, and they were melting. No, not +melting, but evaporating.... + +"Like crystal it is," said Lin Pey, waving his delicate oriental +hands, "like jade as transparent as crystal." + +"There is a camel in the circle," said Lazar, "a brown camel." + +"Let's all try and see the camel together," said Vera Galindez +sharply. "Tell us what it looks like, Lazar." + +"It's brown, it's the two-humped kind, it has a two-foot tail." + +"And big feet," said Lin Pey. + +"A stupid face," said Donner. + +"Very stupid." + +"Your camel is a great bore," said the stocky, scowling Bram Daker. + +"Let's have something else," said Joby. + +"Okay," replied Brunei, "now someone else tell what they see." + +"A lizard," said Linda Tobias, a strange, somber girl, inclined to the +morbid. + +"A lizard?" squeaked Ingrid Solin. + +"No," said Lin Pey, "a dragon. A green dragon, with a forked red +tongue...." + +"He has little useless wings," said Lazar. + +"He is totally oblivious to us," said Vera. + +Brunei saw the dragon. It was five feet long, green and scaly. It was +a conventional dragon, except for the most bovine expression in its +eyes.... + +Yes, he thought, the dragon is _here_. But the greater part of him +knew that it was an illusion. + +How long would this go on? + +"It's _good_ that we see the same things," said Marsha. "Let's always +see the same things...." + +"Yes." + +"Yes!" + +"Now a mountain, a tall blue mountain." + +"With snow on the peak." + +"Yes, and clouds...." + + * * * * * + +_One week out_: + +Oliver Brunei stepped into the common room. Lin Pey, Vera, and Lazar +were sitting together, on what appeared to be a huge purple toadstool. + +But that's _my_ hallucination, thought Brunei. _At least, I think it +is._ + +"Hello Ollie," said Lazar. + +"Hi. What're you doing?" + +"We're looking at the dragon again," said Vera. "Join us?" + +Brunei thought of the dragon for a moment. The toadstool disappeared, +and the by-now-familiar bovine dragon took its place. In the last few +days, they had discovered that if any two of them concentrated on +something long enough to "materialize" it, anyone else who wanted to +could see it in a moment. + +"What's so interesting about that silly dragon?" said Brunei. + +"How about the camel?" said Lazar. + +The dragon turned into the two-humped brown camel. + +"Phooey!" said Lin Pey. + +"O.K.," said Vera, "so what do you want?" + +Lin Pey thought for a moment. + +"How about a meadow?" he said. "A soft lawn of green grass, the sky is +blue, and there are a few white clouds...." + +"Clover is blooming," said Lazar. "Smell it." + +Brunei reclined on the soft green grass. The smell of the earth +beneath him was warm and moist. "A few apple trees here and there," he +said, and there was shade. + +"Look over the hill!" said Lazar. "There's the dragon!" + +"Will you _please_ get rid of that dragon?" snapped Brunei. + +"O.K., Ollie, O.K." + + * * * * * + +_One month out_: + +"Get out of the way!" yelled Brunei. He gave the dragon a kick. It +mooed plaintively. + +"That wasn't very nice, Ollie," said Lazar. + +"That dragon is always underfoot," said Brunei. "Why don't you get rid +of it?" + +"I've taken a liking to it," said Lazar. "Besides, what about your +Saint Bernard?" + +"This ship is getting too cluttered up with everyone's +hallucinations," said Brunei. "Ever since ... when was it, a week +ago?... ever since we've been able to conjure 'em up by ourselves, and +make everyone else see 'em." + +Daker dematerialised the woman on his lap. "Why don't we get +together?" he said. + +"Get together?" + +"Yes. We could agree on an environment. Look at this common room for +example. What a mess! Here, it's a meadow, there it's a beach, a +palace, a boudoir." + +"You mean we should make it the same for all of us?" asked Lazar. + +"Sure. We can have whatever we want in our cabins, but let's make some +sense out of the common room." + +"Good idea," said Brunei. "I'll call the others." + + * * * * * + +_Three months out_: + +Brunei stepped through the stuccoed portal, and into the central +Spanish garden. He noticed that the sky was blue, with a few fleecy +white clouds. + +But then, the weather was always good. They had agreed on it. + +Lazar, Ingrid, Lin Pey and Vera were sitting on the green lawn +surrounding the fountain. + +Daker, Joby, Linda and Donner preferred the shade, and lounged against +the white arabesqued wall which enclosed the garden on four sides, +broken only by four arched entrance portals. + +The garden had been a good compromise, thought Brunei. Something for +everyone. Fresh air and sun-shine, but also the mental security +offered by the walls, which also provided shade for those who wanted +it. A fountain, a few palm trees, grass, flowers, even the little +formal Japanese rock garden that Lin Pey had insisted on. + +"Hello, Ollie," said Lazar. "Nice day." + +"Isn't it always?" replied Brunei. "How about a little shower?" + +"Maybe tomorrow." + +"I notice a lot of sleeping people today," said Brunei. + +"Yes," said Lin Pey. "By now, the garden seems to be able to maintain +itself." + +"You think it has a separate existence?" asked Ingrid. + +"Of course not," said Vera. "Our subconscious minds are maintaining +it. It's probably here when we're all asleep." + +"No way of telling _that_," said Brunei. "Besides, how can it exist +when we're asleep, when it doesn't really exist to begin with?" + +"Semantics, Ollie, semantics." + +Brunei took a bottle of Omnidrene out of his pocket. "Time to charge +up the old batteries again," he said. + +He passed out the pills. + +"I notice Marsha is still in her cabin." + +"Yeah," said Lazar, "she keeps to herself a lot. No great--" + +Just then, Marsha burst into the garden, screaming: "Make it go away! +Make it go away!" + +Behind her slithered a gigantic black snake, with a head as big as a +horse's, and bulging red eyes. + +"I thought we agreed to leave our private hallucinations in our +cabins," snapped Brunei. + +"I tried! I tried! I _don't want_ it around, but it won't go away! Do +something!" + +Ten feet of snake had already entered the garden. The thing seemed +endless. + +"Take it easy," said Lazar. "Let's all concentrate and think it away." + +They tried to erase the snake, but it just rolled its big red eyes. + +"That won't work," said Vera. "Her subconscious is still fighting us. +Part of her must _want_ the snake here. We've _all_ got to be together +to erase it." + +Marsha began to cry. The snake advanced another two feet. + +"Oh, quiet!" rasped Lazar. "Ollie, do I have your permission to bring +my dragon into the garden? He'll make short work of the snake." + +Brunei scowled. "You and your dragon.... Oh, maybe it'll work." + +Instantly, the green dragon was in the garden. But it was no longer +five feet long and bovine. + +It was a good twelve feet long, with cold reptilian eyes and big +yellow fangs. + +It took one look at the snake, opened its powerful jaws, and belched a +huge tongue of orange flame. + +The serpent was incinerated. It disappeared. + +Brunei was trembling. "What happened, Lazar?" he said. "That's not the +same stupid little dragon." + +"Hah ... hah...." squeaked Lazar. "He's ... uh ... grown...." + +Brunei suddenly noticed that Lazar was ashen. He also noticed that the +dragon was turning in their direction. + +"Get it out of here, Lazar! Get it out of here!" + +Lazar nodded. The dragon flickered and went pale, but it was over a +minute before it disappeared entirely. + + * * * * * + +_Six months out_: + +_Things_ wandered the passageways and haunted the cabins. Marsha's +snake was back. There was Lazar's dragon, which seemed to grow larger +every day. There was also a basilisk, a pterodactyl, a vampire bat +with a five-foot wingspread, an old-fashioned red spade-tailed demon +and other assorted horrors. + +Even Oliver Brunei's friendly Saint Bernard had grown to monstrous +size, turned pale green, and grown large yellow fangs. + +Only the Spanish garden in the common room was free of the +monstrosities. Here, the combined conscious minds of the ten crew +members were still strong enough to banish the rampaging +hallucinations. + +The ten of them sat around the fountain, which seemed a shade less +sparkling. + +There were even rainclouds in the sky. + +"I don't like it," said Bram Daker. "It's getting completely out of +control." + +"So we just have to stay in the garden, that's all," said Brunei. "The +food's all here, and so is the Omnidrene. And _they_ can't come here." + +"Not yet," said Marsha. + +They all shuddered. + +"What went wrong?" asked Ingrid. + +"Nothing," said Donner. "They didn't know what would happen when they +sent us out, so we can't say they were _wrong_." + +"Very comforting," croaked Lazar. "But can someone tell me why we +can't control _them_ any more?" + +"Who knows?" said Brunei. "At least we can keep them out of here. +That's--" + +There was a snuffling at the wall. The head of something like a +Tyrannosaurus Rex peered over the wall at them. + +"Ugh!" said Lin Pey. "I think that's a new one." + +The dragon's head appeared alongside the Tyrannosaur's. + +"Well, at least _there's_ a familiar face," tittered Linda. + +"Very funny." + +Marsha screamed. The huge black snake thrust its head through a +portal. + +And the flap of leathery wings could be heard. And the smell of +sulphur. + +"Come on! Come on!" shouted Brunei. "Let's get these things out of +here!" + +After five minutes of intense group concentration, the last of the +horrors was banished. + +"It was a lot harder this time," said Daker. + +"There were more of them," said Donner. + +"They're getting stronger and bolder." + +"Maybe some day they'll break through, and...." Lin Pey let the +sentence hang. Everyone supplied his own ending. + +"Don't be ridiculous!" snapped Brunei. "They're not real. _They can't +kill us!_" + +"Maybe we should stop taking the Omnidrene?" suggested Vera, without +very much conviction. + +"At _this_ point?" said Brunei. He shuddered. "If the garden +disappeared, and we had nothing but the bare ship for the next fifteen +and a half years, and we _knew_ it, and at the same time knew that we +had the Omnidrene to bring it back.... How long do you think we'd hold +off?" + +"You're right," said Vera. + +"We just have to stick it out," said Brunei. "Just remember: _They +can't kill us. They aren't real._" + +"Yes," the crew whispered in a tiny, frail voice, "they aren't +real...." + + * * * * * + +_Seven months out_: + +The garden was covered with a gloomy gray cloud layer. Even the +"weather" was getting harder and harder to control. + +The crew of starship Number Thirteen huddled around the fountain, +staring into the water, trying desperately to ignore the snufflings, +flappings, wheezes and growls coming from outside the walls. But +occasionally, a scaly head would raise itself above the wall, or a +pterodactyl or bat would flap overhead, and there would be violent +shudders. + +"I still think we should stop taking the Omnidrene," said Vera +Galindez. + +"If we stopped taking it," asked Brunei, "which would disappear first, +_them_ ... _or the garden?_" + +Vera grimaced. "But we've got to do something," she said. "We can't +even make them disappear at all, any more. And it's becoming a full +time job just to keep them outside the walls." + +"And sooner or later," interjected Lazar, "we're _not_ going to be +strong enough to keep them out...." + +"_Brr!_" + +[Illustration] + +"The snake! The snake!" screamed Marsha. "It's coming in again!" + +The huge black head was already through a portal. + +"Stop the snake, everyone!" yelled Brunei. Eyes were riveted on the +ugly serpent, in intense concentration. + +After five minutes, it was obviously a stalemate. The snake had not +been able to advance, nor could the humans force it to retreat. + +Then smoke began to rise behind the far wall. + +"The dragon's burning down the wall!" shrieked Lazar. "Stop him!" + +They concentrated on the dragon. The smoke disappeared. + +But the snake began to advance again. + +"They're too strong!" moaned Brunei. "We can't hold them back." + +They stopped the snake for a few moments, but the smoke began to +billow again. + +"They're gonna break through!" screamed Donner. "We can't stop 'em!" + +"What are we gonna do?" + +"Help!" + +Creakings, cracklings, groanings, as the walls began to crack and +blister and shake. + +Suddenly Bram Daker stood up, his dark eyes aflame. + +"Only one thing's strong enough!" he bellowed. "Earth! _Earth!_ EARTH! +Think of Earth! All of you! We're back on Earth. Visualize it, make it +real, and the monsters'll have to disappear." + +"But _where_ on Earth?" said Vera, bewildered. + +"The Spaceport!" shouted Brunei. "The Spaceport! We all remember the +Spaceport." + +"We're back on Earth! The Spaceport!" + +"Earth!" + +"_Earth!_" + +"EARTH! EARTH!" + +The garden was beginning to flicker. It became red, orange, yellow, +green, blue, violet, invisible; then back again through the spectrum +the other way--violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, invisible. + +Back and forth, like a pendulum through the spectrum.... + +Oliver Brunei's head hurt unbearably, he could see the pain on the +other faces, but he allowed only one thought to fill his +being--_Earth! The Spaceport! EARTH!_ + +More and more, faster and faster, the garden flickered, and now it was +the old common room again, and _that_ was flickering. + +Light was flickering, mind was flickering, time, too, seemed to +flicker.... + +_Only Earth!_ thought Brunei. Earth doesn't flicker, the Spaceport +doesn't flicker. + +Earth! EARTH! + +Now all the flickerings, of color, time, mind and dimensions, were +coalescing into one gigantic vortex, that was a thing neither of time, +nor space, nor mind, but all three somehow fused into one.... + +They're screaming! Brunei thought. Listen to the horrible screams! +Suddenly he noticed that he, too, was screaming. + +The vortex was growing, swirling, undulating, and it, too, began to +flicker.... + +There was an unbearable, impossible pain, and.... + + * * * * * + +The sight of starship Number Thirteen suddenly appearing out of +nowhere, and sitting itself calmly down in the middle of the Spaceport +was somewhat disconcerting to the Spaceport officials. Especially +since at the very moment it appeared, and even afterward, they +continued to have visual and laser contact with its image, over three +light-months from Earth. + +However, the Solar Government itself was much more pragmatic. One +instant, starship Thirteen had been light-months from Earth, the next +it was sitting in the Spaceport. Therefore, starship Thirteen had +exceeded the speed of light somehow. Therefore, it was possible to +exceed the speed of light, and a thorough examination of the ship and +its contents would show _how_. + +Therefore.... You idiots, throw a security cordon around that ship! + +In such matters, the long-conditioned reflexes of the Solar Government +worked marvelously. Before the air-waves had cooled, two hundred +heavily armed soldiers had surrounded the ship. + +Two hours later, the Solar co-ordinator was on the scene, with ten +Orders of Sol to present to the returning heroes, and a large +well-armored vehicle to convey them to laboratories, where they would +be gone over with the proverbial fine-tooth comb. + +An honor guard of two hundred men standing at attention made a pathway +from the ship's main hatch to the armored carrier, in front of which +stood the Solar Co-ordinator, with his ten medals. + +They opened the hatch. + +One, two, five, seven, ten dazed and bewildered "heroes" staggered +past the honor guard, to face the Co-ordinator. + +He opened his mouth to begin his welcoming speech, and start the five +years of questioning and experiments which would eventually kill five +of the crew and give Man the secret of faster-than-light drive. + +But instead of speaking, he screamed. + +So did two hundred heavily armed soldiers. + +Because, out of starship Thirteen's main hatch sauntered a twelve-foot +green dragon, followed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a pterodactyl, a +vampire bat with a five-foot wingspan, an old-fashioned red, +spade-tailed demon, and finally, big as a horse's, the pop-eyed head +of an enormous black serpent.... + + * * * * * + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Subjectivity, by Norman Spinrad + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUBJECTIVITY *** + +***** This file should be named 30722.txt or 30722.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/0/7/2/30722/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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