Atlantis And Other Places (2010)
Atlantis And Other Places
“It’s too strategically placed not to be. It offers access to Egypt from Syria—or, conversely, depending on who’s holding it, it offers access to Syria from Egypt. The breakpoint in this alternate history goes back a long way: more than 3,000 years. But, as Al Stewart says in “Nostradamus,” the more it changes, the more it stays the same.
Theidas wasn’t thrilled about going upcountry from Gaza—who would have been? But when you were a nineteen-year-old conscript serving out your term, nobody gave... a curse about whether you were thrilled. You were there to do what other people told you—and on the double, soldier!
He got into the armored personnel carrier with all the enthusiasm of someone climbing into his own coffin. None of the other young Philistinians climbing aboard looked any happier than he did. The reason wasn’t hard to figure: there was a small—but not nearly small enough—chance they were doing exactly that.
The last man in slammed the clamshell doors at the rear.MoreLess
Theidas wasn’t thrilled about going upcountry from Gaza—who would have been? But when you were a nineteen-year-old conscript serving out your term, nobody gave... a curse about whether you were thrilled. You were there to do what other people told you—and on the double, soldier!
He got into the armored personnel carrier with all the enthusiasm of someone climbing into his own coffin. None of the other young Philistinians climbing aboard looked any happier than he did. The reason wasn’t hard to figure: there was a small—but not nearly small enough—chance they were doing exactly that.
The last man in slammed the clamshell doors at the rear.MoreLess
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