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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Sons of Japheth - -Author: Richard Wilson - -Release Date: June 13, 2022 [eBook #68305] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONS OF JAPHETH *** - - - - - - THE SONS OF JAPHETH - - By RICHARD WILSON - - Illustrated by ENGLE - - _His duty was clear and simple: strafe Noah's - ark and kill every human on it. The tricky - part was making sure the animals lived!_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Infinity, December 1956. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan happened to be spaceborne when the Earth -exploded. In that way he escaped the annihilation along with one other -man, revered old Dr. Garfield Gar, who was in the space station. - -Roy had backed well off in preparation for a mach ten dive on Kabul, -which the enemy had lately taken over. He had one small omnibomb left -in his racks and Kabul had seemed to be about the right size. But then -the destruction of Earth changed his plans. - -He watched, expressionless, as the planet exploded. He shrugged. There -was nothing to do now but go see Dr. Gar. - -Roy's foescope clamored insistently and he tensed, thinking a -spaceborne enemy was on him, but it was only a piece of exploding Earth -stumbling by. - -Dr. Gar was alone in the space station because all able-bodied men had -been called to fight World War V. The governments of Earth, in a rare -moment of conscience during the Short Truce, had agreed that Dr. Gar, -as the embodiment of all Earthly knowledge, should be protected from -harm. - -Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan didn't receive as warm a reception from old -Dr. Gar as he might have, considering that they were the only two -people left. The old man was combing his white beard with his fingers -and didn't offer to shake hands. - -"Well," said Roy as he defused his bomb and secured his single-seater -in the spacelock, "I guess it's all over." - -"Scarcely a historic statement," Dr. Gar said, "but it describes the -situation." - -"If you don't have anything for me to do I'd just as soon have a drink. -They usually let me have a stiff one after I complete a mission." - -Dr. Gar examined the hard young pilot from under shaggy white eyebrows. -"I do have another mission for you but you can have a drink first. -Peach brandy is all that's left." - -"That'll be fine," Roy said. "I was never particular." - -"Then you're my man," Dr. Gar said, giving him a deep look, "because I -want you to go back in time and destroy humanity." - -"Whatever you say." Roy's training showed. "But if I may comment, -wouldn't that be superfluous? Except for you and me the human race is -finished. We've achieved our objective." He spoke without irony. - -"Never _my_ objective." - -"I'm not a scholar and I mean no offense," Roy said, "but I believe it -was the co-ordinated spatial theory you announced back in '06 that made -it possible." - -"Misapplication," Dr. Gar said wearily, not wanting to go into it -further for such an audience. Though, he thought, he'd never have -another. "Come into my study and have your brandy." - - * * * * * - -"I still don't understand," Roy said later. He reached tentatively for -the bottle. When the old man made no objection he poured a second stiff -one. - -"You want me to go back in time and wipe out all human life," Roy said. -"I assume you'll tell me when and where. All right. That would destroy -our ancestors and so we'd cease to exist, too. Wouldn't it be simpler -to kill ourselves now? That is, if you see no point to our further -existence." - -Old Dr. Gar watched the other remnant of Earthly life twirl the brandy -in the goblet. He looked at the viewscreen. It showed a panorama of -rock dust and steam where Earth had been. - -"You forget that we have annihilated everything," Dr. Gar said, gazing -pensively at the screen. "Mankind, the animals, plant life and the tiny -things that creep the earth or swim the waters. Your mission will be -more selective." - -"Selective? How?" - -"You'll destroy man, but the rest will live. They may evolve into -something better." - -"If you say so, Doctor." Roy's devotion to duty was a well-worn path. -"Assuming you have the machine and I can operate it." - -"The machine is merely an attachment. It will plug into the instrument -panel of your spacecraft. It operates automatically." - -"Good enough. You always were a whiz at these things. How far back do I -go? And who do I kill?" - -"I want you to strafe the Ark, exercising care not to hurt any of the -animals," said old Dr. Garfield Gar. - -"Noah's Ark?" Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan asked. "You mean during the -Flood?" - -"Yes, I've computed it exactly. You won't have to worry about getting -there at the wrong time." - -"You mean after the forty days' rain, so I'll have good visibility. -Good-o." He agreed readily and he'd do as the doctor said, of course, -but he permitted a trace of skepticism in his inflection and a -searching look into his goblet. - -"No, not the fortieth day," Dr. Gar said, "but in what we are told was -the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of -the month. The animals need dry land. I have it all figured out." - -"I hope so. I mean I'm sure you have. You're the doctor, of course, but -wasn't there some doubt about the accuracy of the old Book? I didn't -know you were a fundamentalist." - -"Am I not the repository of all human knowledge?" Dr. Gar asked. He was -not a bit angry with Roy Vanjan. "Am I not the last best hope? Has not -all else failed us?" - -"Well, sure--" - -"Did not the Noahic Covenant, under which human government was -established, fail? Has not Japhetic science been our undoing?" - -Roy looked lost. "I'm no scholar, Doctor." - -"Agreed. But perhaps you'll grant that I am?" He looked with supreme -calm at the young pilot. "I'm your new intelligence officer and you're -merely my striking arm. Help yourself to another brandy, son." - -"Maybe I'd better not. I don't want to goof the mission." - -"There's time. You'll want some sleep first." - -"All right. I suppose I'll need a steady hand to murder Noah and the -rest." - -"And Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife," said Dr. Gar, "and -the three wives of his sons with them, as it was written. Especially -Japheth. But not the animals, remember." - -"I understand that. If you think the Ten Commandments don't apply. -Whichever one of them it was." - -"They were an element of the Mosaic Covenant. It, too, failed. Perhaps -the Garic Covenant, if I may be so vain, will endure." - - * * * * * - -The waters covered the Earth. - -A moment ago, before he activated the attachment, Pilot Officer Roy -Vanjan's spacecraft had been plunging towards the vortex of a ragged -ball of dust and vapor, the destroyed Earth of World War V. Now, in the -Adamic Year 601 (or was it the Edenic?--he couldn't remember, though -Dr. Gar had let him study the Book), the waters stretched everywhere. -Ahead the sun glinted in reflection from something rising above the -surface. Ararat? - -He made out the twin peaks. He throttled back to scarcely more than -mach one and flew over them, high. His second pass took him back along -his own vapor trail. This time he spotted the tiny surface craft making -for the solitary bit of land. He had to hand it to Dr. Gar. The old -boy's space-time grid had hit it right on the button. - -Roy was too high to distinguish details but he imagined that Noah and -his family would be on deck, full of the wonder of Mount Ararat rising, -as promised, from the sea. - -But there was another wonder--the vapor trails that stretched for miles -across the upper air. Did they, down there on the Ark, think them a -sign of the Lord? Roy smiled ironically. They were a sign of the lord -Gar and of his servant, Pilot Officer Vanjan, come to blast them into -eternity and change the future, to give the animals a chance. - -Who would chronicle his role as the re-arranging angel, the unheavenly -host about to gather up in violence the drifting souls below? Who, -he wondered. Some simian scribe? Some unborn elephant prophet? An -insectate scholar destined to evolve from among the creeping things -that would inherit the Earth? - -Or perhaps the written word would die unborn under the fiery hail of -his guns. - -No matter. These questions and more had been anticipated by Dr. Gar. -Soon now, at the end of Roy's strafing run, it would be up to History -to begin assembling the answers. - -He slowed to mach minus and sent out wings. He would have to dip close -to see if the entire Ark's complement was on deck. The job had to be -done right or Earth was kaput. Nothing personal, Noah, old boy. - -There they were, on the starboard side of the top deck, well out from -under the pitch of the roof, craning their necks for a look at this -miracle in the sky where they had expected to see only a returning dove. - -"Behold!" Roy cried out. "I bring you tidings! But not the tidings of -the dove. I am your lost raven returned--the raven of death! My tidings -are of the new future which your descendants will not know and so will -not doom." - -The frightened upturned faces were far behind and he was talking to -himself. - -"Hear me, Noah, for I am come to destroy you, and with you your seeds -of self-destruction. These are the tidings I bring from the future that -has ceased to exist because you existed--the future that will exist -once more when you cease to." - -He heeled the spacecraft over and back. No more speeches, he told -himself, though he had studied the Book in fascination. He was a -killer, not a philosopher. - -He would have to make his strafing run low. If he dived on the target -his bullets would go into the holds and kill the animals. He roared at -the Ark a few feet above the waves. - -They were all together in a clump, the eight of them. - -Farewell, Noah! he thought as his thumbs pressed on the death-dealing -button. Farewell, Noah and Noah's wife! - -Farewell, Ham, and Ham's wife and unborn sons--farewell, Canaan, and -Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut! - -Farewell, Shem! And unborn Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and -Aram! - -And farewell, Japheth, father of sons of science! Farewell, Gomer, and -Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras! - -Farewell, all tribes. Make way for the animal kingdom in the Garic -Covenant. - - * * * * * - -He had made three passes and now he zoomed into the sky. He had -destroyed humanity and changed the future. - -Or had he? He'd be dead, too, if he had, gone like the snap of a finger -with the last gasp from the Ark. He had killed his ancestors. He had -killed everybody's ancestors, but _he_ existed still. Where was the -paradox that Dr. Gar had overlooked? - -The Ark had drifted closer to the shore. He circled it and counted the -lifeless bodies lying in red stains on the gopher wood of the deck. -Eight. - -Then he noticed the change. The backs of his hands were hairier. His -shoes were binding him. When he kicked them off his agile toes curled -comfortably around the control pedals. He had a glimpse of a hairy, -flat-nosed face reflected in the instrument panel. It laughed and the -sound came out a simian yap. - -But for all that he was still a sentient being. His control of the -spacecraft was as expert as before. - -It hadn't worked. - -_Do you hear, Dr. Gar?_ he thought. _It's a flop. I goofed the mission. -We're all dead, no matter what._ - -_I give you a new commandment, man who would be God: Thou shalt not -tamper with time._ - -He had changed the future and in the future he himself had been -changed, but not enough. Somewhere below in the hold of the Ark were -his ancestors who had evolved along a new path in the new future. The -evolution had been slower, perhaps, but it had been as sure, external -appearances notwithstanding. Somewhere in the far new future, he was -sure, there was a simian Dr. Gar looking down in solitude on the -remains of Earth. - -The Ark had touched the land. The animals--his fellow creatures--were -beginning to go forth, two by two, onto the shore of Ararat. - -His foescope set up a clamor. There in the sky was a new thing, -a spacecraft like his, yet unlike it. It looked deadlier, more -purposeful. Ignoring him, it was diving out of the unknowable future -to destroy its own past. - -He watched in professional admiration as his fellow pilot screamed -unerringly for the Ark in sacrificial completion of the mission he -himself had failed to accomplish. Death to the animals, too--from an -animal pilot. - -He knew then that Earth would not die. It might circle lifeless for -eons, waiting to welcome the foot--or paw, or tentacle--of others from -outside. 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The tricky<br /> -part was making sure the animals lived!</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Infinity, December 1956.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan happened to be spaceborne when the Earth -exploded. In that way he escaped the annihilation along with one other -man, revered old Dr. Garfield Gar, who was in the space station.</p> - -<p>Roy had backed well off in preparation for a mach ten dive on Kabul, -which the enemy had lately taken over. He had one small omnibomb left -in his racks and Kabul had seemed to be about the right size. But then -the destruction of Earth changed his plans.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He watched, expressionless, as the planet exploded. He shrugged. There -was nothing to do now but go see Dr. Gar.</p> - -<p>Roy's foescope clamored insistently and he tensed, thinking a -spaceborne enemy was on him, but it was only a piece of exploding Earth -stumbling by.</p> - -<p>Dr. Gar was alone in the space station because all able-bodied men had -been called to fight World War V. The governments of Earth, in a rare -moment of conscience during the Short Truce, had agreed that Dr. Gar, -as the embodiment of all Earthly knowledge, should be protected from -harm.</p> - -<p>Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan didn't receive as warm a reception from old -Dr. Gar as he might have, considering that they were the only two -people left. The old man was combing his white beard with his fingers -and didn't offer to shake hands.</p> - -<p>"Well," said Roy as he defused his bomb and secured his single-seater -in the spacelock, "I guess it's all over."</p> - -<p>"Scarcely a historic statement," Dr. Gar said, "but it describes the -situation."</p> - -<p>"If you don't have anything for me to do I'd just as soon have a drink. -They usually let me have a stiff one after I complete a mission."</p> - -<p>Dr. Gar examined the hard young pilot from under shaggy white eyebrows. -"I do have another mission for you but you can have a drink first. -Peach brandy is all that's left."</p> - -<p>"That'll be fine," Roy said. "I was never particular."</p> - -<p>"Then you're my man," Dr. Gar said, giving him a deep look, "because I -want you to go back in time and destroy humanity."</p> - -<p>"Whatever you say." Roy's training showed. "But if I may comment, -wouldn't that be superfluous? Except for you and me the human race is -finished. We've achieved our objective." He spoke without irony.</p> - -<p>"Never <i>my</i> objective."</p> - -<p>"I'm not a scholar and I mean no offense," Roy said, "but I believe it -was the co-ordinated spatial theory you announced back in '06 that made -it possible."</p> - -<p>"Misapplication," Dr. Gar said wearily, not wanting to go into it -further for such an audience. Though, he thought, he'd never have -another. "Come into my study and have your brandy."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"I still don't understand," Roy said later. He reached tentatively for -the bottle. When the old man made no objection he poured a second stiff -one.</p> - -<p>"You want me to go back in time and wipe out all human life," Roy said. -"I assume you'll tell me when and where. All right. That would destroy -our ancestors and so we'd cease to exist, too. Wouldn't it be simpler -to kill ourselves now? That is, if you see no point to our further -existence."</p> - -<p>Old Dr. Gar watched the other remnant of Earthly life twirl the brandy -in the goblet. He looked at the viewscreen. It showed a panorama of -rock dust and steam where Earth had been.</p> - -<p>"You forget that we have annihilated everything," Dr. Gar said, gazing -pensively at the screen. "Mankind, the animals, plant life and the tiny -things that creep the earth or swim the waters. Your mission will be -more selective."</p> - -<p>"Selective? How?"</p> - -<p>"You'll destroy man, but the rest will live. They may evolve into -something better."</p> - -<p>"If you say so, Doctor." Roy's devotion to duty was a well-worn path. -"Assuming you have the machine and I can operate it."</p> - -<p>"The machine is merely an attachment. It will plug into the instrument -panel of your spacecraft. It operates automatically."</p> - -<p>"Good enough. You always were a whiz at these things. How far back do I -go? And who do I kill?"</p> - -<p>"I want you to strafe the Ark, exercising care not to hurt any of the -animals," said old Dr. Garfield Gar.</p> - -<p>"Noah's Ark?" Pilot Officer Roy Vanjan asked. "You mean during the -Flood?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I've computed it exactly. You won't have to worry about getting -there at the wrong time."</p> - -<p>"You mean after the forty days' rain, so I'll have good visibility. -Good-o." He agreed readily and he'd do as the doctor said, of course, -but he permitted a trace of skepticism in his inflection and a -searching look into his goblet.</p> - -<p>"No, not the fortieth day," Dr. Gar said, "but in what we are told was -the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of -the month. The animals need dry land. I have it all figured out."</p> - -<p>"I hope so. I mean I'm sure you have. You're the doctor, of course, but -wasn't there some doubt about the accuracy of the old Book? I didn't -know you were a fundamentalist."</p> - -<p>"Am I not the repository of all human knowledge?" Dr. Gar asked. He was -not a bit angry with Roy Vanjan. "Am I not the last best hope? Has not -all else failed us?"</p> - -<p>"Well, sure—"</p> - -<p>"Did not the Noahic Covenant, under which human government was -established, fail? Has not Japhetic science been our undoing?"</p> - -<p>Roy looked lost. "I'm no scholar, Doctor."</p> - -<p>"Agreed. But perhaps you'll grant that I am?" He looked with supreme -calm at the young pilot. "I'm your new intelligence officer and you're -merely my striking arm. Help yourself to another brandy, son."</p> - -<p>"Maybe I'd better not. I don't want to goof the mission."</p> - -<p>"There's time. You'll want some sleep first."</p> - -<p>"All right. I suppose I'll need a steady hand to murder Noah and the -rest."</p> - -<p>"And Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife," said Dr. Gar, "and -the three wives of his sons with them, as it was written. Especially -Japheth. But not the animals, remember."</p> - -<p>"I understand that. If you think the Ten Commandments don't apply. -Whichever one of them it was."</p> - -<p>"They were an element of the Mosaic Covenant. It, too, failed. Perhaps -the Garic Covenant, if I may be so vain, will endure."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The waters covered the Earth.</p> - -<p>A moment ago, before he activated the attachment, Pilot Officer Roy -Vanjan's spacecraft had been plunging towards the vortex of a ragged -ball of dust and vapor, the destroyed Earth of World War V. Now, in the -Adamic Year 601 (or was it the Edenic?—he couldn't remember, though -Dr. Gar had let him study the Book), the waters stretched everywhere. -Ahead the sun glinted in reflection from something rising above the -surface. Ararat?</p> - -<p>He made out the twin peaks. He throttled back to scarcely more than -mach one and flew over them, high. His second pass took him back along -his own vapor trail. This time he spotted the tiny surface craft making -for the solitary bit of land. He had to hand it to Dr. Gar. The old -boy's space-time grid had hit it right on the button.</p> - -<p>Roy was too high to distinguish details but he imagined that Noah and -his family would be on deck, full of the wonder of Mount Ararat rising, -as promised, from the sea.</p> - -<p>But there was another wonder—the vapor trails that stretched for miles -across the upper air. Did they, down there on the Ark, think them a -sign of the Lord? Roy smiled ironically. They were a sign of the lord -Gar and of his servant, Pilot Officer Vanjan, come to blast them into -eternity and change the future, to give the animals a chance.</p> - -<p>Who would chronicle his role as the re-arranging angel, the unheavenly -host about to gather up in violence the drifting souls below? Who, -he wondered. Some simian scribe? Some unborn elephant prophet? An -insectate scholar destined to evolve from among the creeping things -that would inherit the Earth?</p> - -<p>Or perhaps the written word would die unborn under the fiery hail of -his guns.</p> - -<p>No matter. These questions and more had been anticipated by Dr. Gar. -Soon now, at the end of Roy's strafing run, it would be up to History -to begin assembling the answers.</p> - -<p>He slowed to mach minus and sent out wings. He would have to dip close -to see if the entire Ark's complement was on deck. The job had to be -done right or Earth was kaput. Nothing personal, Noah, old boy.</p> - -<p>There they were, on the starboard side of the top deck, well out from -under the pitch of the roof, craning their necks for a look at this -miracle in the sky where they had expected to see only a returning dove.</p> - -<p>"Behold!" Roy cried out. "I bring you tidings! But not the tidings of -the dove. I am your lost raven returned—the raven of death! My tidings -are of the new future which your descendants will not know and so will -not doom."</p> - -<p>The frightened upturned faces were far behind and he was talking to -himself.</p> - -<p>"Hear me, Noah, for I am come to destroy you, and with you your seeds -of self-destruction. These are the tidings I bring from the future that -has ceased to exist because you existed—the future that will exist -once more when you cease to."</p> - -<p>He heeled the spacecraft over and back. No more speeches, he told -himself, though he had studied the Book in fascination. He was a -killer, not a philosopher.</p> - -<p>He would have to make his strafing run low. If he dived on the target -his bullets would go into the holds and kill the animals. He roared at -the Ark a few feet above the waves.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They were all together in a clump, the eight of them.</p> - -<p>Farewell, Noah! he thought as his thumbs pressed on the death-dealing -button. Farewell, Noah and Noah's wife!</p> - -<p>Farewell, Ham, and Ham's wife and unborn sons—farewell, Canaan, and -Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut!</p> - -<p>Farewell, Shem! And unborn Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and -Aram!</p> - -<p>And farewell, Japheth, father of sons of science! Farewell, Gomer, and -Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras!</p> - -<p>Farewell, all tribes. Make way for the animal kingdom in the Garic -Covenant.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He had made three passes and now he zoomed into the sky. He had -destroyed humanity and changed the future.</p> - -<p>Or had he? He'd be dead, too, if he had, gone like the snap of a finger -with the last gasp from the Ark. He had killed his ancestors. He had -killed everybody's ancestors, but <i>he</i> existed still. Where was the -paradox that Dr. Gar had overlooked?</p> - -<p>The Ark had drifted closer to the shore. He circled it and counted the -lifeless bodies lying in red stains on the gopher wood of the deck. -Eight.</p> - -<p>Then he noticed the change. The backs of his hands were hairier. His -shoes were binding him. When he kicked them off his agile toes curled -comfortably around the control pedals. He had a glimpse of a hairy, -flat-nosed face reflected in the instrument panel. It laughed and the -sound came out a simian yap.</p> - -<p>But for all that he was still a sentient being. His control of the -spacecraft was as expert as before.</p> - -<p>It hadn't worked.</p> - -<p><i>Do you hear, Dr. Gar?</i> he thought. <i>It's a flop. I goofed the mission. -We're all dead, no matter what.</i></p> - -<p><i>I give you a new commandment, man who would be God: Thou shalt not -tamper with time.</i></p> - -<p>He had changed the future and in the future he himself had been -changed, but not enough. Somewhere below in the hold of the Ark were -his ancestors who had evolved along a new path in the new future. The -evolution had been slower, perhaps, but it had been as sure, external -appearances notwithstanding. Somewhere in the far new future, he was -sure, there was a simian Dr. Gar looking down in solitude on the -remains of Earth.</p> - -<p>The Ark had touched the land. The animals—his fellow creatures—were -beginning to go forth, two by two, onto the shore of Ararat.</p> - -<p>His foescope set up a clamor. There in the sky was a new thing, -a spacecraft like his, yet unlike it. It looked deadlier, more -purposeful. Ignoring him, it was diving out of the unknowable future -to destroy its own past.</p> - -<p>He watched in professional admiration as his fellow pilot screamed -unerringly for the Ark in sacrificial completion of the mission he -himself had failed to accomplish. Death to the animals, too—from an -animal pilot.</p> - -<p>He knew then that Earth would not die. It might circle lifeless for -eons, waiting to welcome the foot—or paw, or tentacle—of others from -outside. 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