![]() ![]() And five hundred years of secrecy was more than anyone had a right to expect. Someone was bound to start asking questions sooner or later. "We can't allow it, Virginia," he said, "Prying of this sort can only precipitate a pogrom or worse. ![]() His thin, almost ascetic face was pale and drawn. Quintus Bland, The Romance of Genus Homo.ĭirector Han Merrick paced the floor nervously. For five centuries the Creche had stood so, and the Androids had come forth in an unending stream to labor for Man, the Master. ![]() A great, mile square blind cube topping a ragged mountain bare escarpments falling away to a turbulent sea. This, then, was the Creche, Anno Domini 2500. Merrick's decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa? The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. copyright on this publication was renewed. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction November 1953. ![]()
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