It's the essence of technology fiction to chart the chances of the longer term, however it takes the hand of a grasp to seize the farthest reaches of time--futures virtually unimaginably far away. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the main artistic and audacious visions of the longer term via many acclaimed writers, including:
* Brian Aldiss * Paul Anderson * Avram Davidson * Joe Haldeman * Alexander Jablokov * Paul J. McAuley * Ian McDonald * Michael Moorcock * Frederik Pohl * Robert Reed * Keith Roberts * Robert Silverberg * Cordwainer Smith * James Tiptree, Jr. * Jack Vance * Walter Jon Williams * Gene Wolfe
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The boy never moved. Finally the pilgrim approached the hollow in the tree and cried loudly, “Master! ” “That it will eat, and there it rests,” came the child’s instant reply. The spirit feeds on that, the holy. It rests there, in the sphere of the sacred. ” It is a single unbroken poem, each hymn or stanza linked to the previous by opening with that verse’s final word. The child poet had studied no grammars, trained himself in no poetic theory, learnt no scripture, sat at the feet of no guru. His songs erupted at the moment of ripeness, interlinked, complete, and without revision.
Finally the pilgrim approached the hollow in the tree and cried loudly, “Master! ” “That it will eat, and there it rests,” came the child’s instant reply. The spirit feeds on that, the holy. It rests there, in the sphere of the sacred. ” It is a single unbroken poem, each hymn or stanza linked to the previous by opening with that verse’s final word. The child poet had studied no grammars, trained himself in no poetic theory, learnt no scripture, sat at the feet of no guru. His songs erupted at the moment of ripeness, interlinked, complete, and without revision.
Masson after commenting on a few of the more evident aspects of the latter poem writes, “I suspect that there is something further in this verse that I . . ” Maybe its author wove a cryptic symbolism through the images, meant to cast the reader into a yogic or mystical state of mind. In the remaining poems the flute is Krishna’s. At the soft forest notes of his bamboo flute the women of Vrindavana itch to leave their houses and join him in the woods, for a night of dancing and lovemaking. I have read anthropologists who believe Krishna’s flute is a holdover from pastoral nomads, or even Ice Age migrations.
