Vietnam And Other Alien Worlds
“I was never trained to be a soldier. Trained to survive, yes, but not to kill or be killed.
That’s the wrong way to start. Let me start this way.
As near as I can reckon, it’s mid-noviembre, AC238. I am Maria Rubera, chief xenologist for the second Confederatión expedition to Sanchrist IV. I am currently standing guard in the mouth of a cave while my five comrades try to sleep. I am armed with a stone axe and flint spear and a pile of rocks for throwing. A cold rain is misting down, and I am wearing only a stiff kilt and vest of wet rank fur. I am cold to the very heart but we dare not risk a fire. The Plathys have too acute a sense of smell.
I am subvocalizing, recording this into my artificial bicuspid, one of which each of us has; the only post—Stone Age artifacts in this cave. It may survive even if, as is probable, I do not. Or it may not survive. The Plathys have a way of eating animals head first, crunching up skull and brain while the decapitated body writhes at their feet or ...staggers around, which to them is high humor.MoreLess
That’s the wrong way to start. Let me start this way.
As near as I can reckon, it’s mid-noviembre, AC238. I am Maria Rubera, chief xenologist for the second Confederatión expedition to Sanchrist IV. I am currently standing guard in the mouth of a cave while my five comrades try to sleep. I am armed with a stone axe and flint spear and a pile of rocks for throwing. A cold rain is misting down, and I am wearing only a stiff kilt and vest of wet rank fur. I am cold to the very heart but we dare not risk a fire. The Plathys have too acute a sense of smell.
I am subvocalizing, recording this into my artificial bicuspid, one of which each of us has; the only post—Stone Age artifacts in this cave. It may survive even if, as is probable, I do not. Or it may not survive. The Plathys have a way of eating animals head first, crunching up skull and brain while the decapitated body writhes at their feet or ...staggers around, which to them is high humor.MoreLess
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