Under the Eye of God
“Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.
For instance: Many thousands of years ago, humans had spread across the great Milky Way galaxy. The bold diaspora, this ti...dal wave of sentience, rippled outward from the spiral arm, discovering, exploring, colonizing, and settling wherever life could make a stand. Human plows broke the ground under scores of new suns. Human children tumbled and laughed in alien skies.
The expanding sphere of humanity enveloped hundreds, then thousands, and finally countless numbers of new worlds. Necessity gave birth to grand technologies. A golden age of freedom had begun. Humanity grew and rejoiced in its growth.
And then, according to legend, the first predator arrived, floating silent and undetected out of the deadly night.MoreLess
For instance: Many thousands of years ago, humans had spread across the great Milky Way galaxy. The bold diaspora, this ti...dal wave of sentience, rippled outward from the spiral arm, discovering, exploring, colonizing, and settling wherever life could make a stand. Human plows broke the ground under scores of new suns. Human children tumbled and laughed in alien skies.
The expanding sphere of humanity enveloped hundreds, then thousands, and finally countless numbers of new worlds. Necessity gave birth to grand technologies. A golden age of freedom had begun. Humanity grew and rejoiced in its growth.
And then, according to legend, the first predator arrived, floating silent and undetected out of the deadly night.MoreLess
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