You know, if this is Venus, or some other strange planet, we're liable to run into some high-domed characters with green blood in ...their veins who'll blast at us with their atomic death rayguns, and there we'll be with these--these poor old-fashioned shootin' irons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Givin...g light to those who may need it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the atom's fizz and pop we heard possibility uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.... A new planet bloomed above us; in its light the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates. The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot; we could have anything we wanted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what these had been, our peoples, our selves--were with us then, were us, had become us--could not be anything but us, their r...epresentatives--and we, together, the Representative, at last found the pole that was the extremity of our old planet, the dark cold pole that had been built, once, to guide in the space-fleets of Canopus, when they visited us. There we left that planet, and came to where we are now. We, the Representative, many and one, came here, where Canopus tends and guards and instructs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was not important that they survive. What mattered was that they should bear... Some lineament or character, Some affluence, if only half-perceived, In the poverty of their words, Of the planet of which they were part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »