Bear fetishes
"Oh," she said blankly. "I wonder why? I havent done anything." Humphf! said J. G. That was the outside of the lab, raw topological space, without energy or matter or time. It was the shape and color of what you see in the back of your head. My eggs? Historic Man, guided by the recorded increment of wonders noted (resolved or unsolved), harnessed the energies of wind and water, grouped with his kin to raise up walls of stone, to stop the enemy before the battle; lived longer and more leisurely; learned to think in abstractions; devised mental tools—logic, morality, philosophy; made new tools with which to peer through at the macro-and micro-cosmic realms of the gods and devils. He saw the magnificent orderliness of the universe; banished wonder and base superstition together; rejoiced, and proclaimed the Age of Reason. The voices rose up around Patrick in the darkness. Sabina said,Thekaiken is the traditional weapon favored by Japanese women. You took it with you when you went again to see Mrs. Egan. He shrugged expressively.We can do only one thing. We must balance the wrong which we know we are doing against the goal we are morally obliged to support. We must go ahead and... and try not to let our consciences upset us too much. "Oh, Im sorry," Poloscki said. "I started drinking your coffee." The closest thing to it since then has been Fred Pohls new-writer-per-issue policy forIf—where R. A. Lafferty, Larry Niven, and Norman Kagan first appeared. The policy continues to turn up good prospects: Jonathan Brand, Hayden Howard, Alexei Panshin, and Bruce McAllister might—any or all—develop interestingly. But the combining force, whatever it is, is not there—nor atF&SF, although it continues to attract, and select, superior new writers. (Since 1960, F&SF has come up with a number of exciting“Firsts,” among whom Vance Aandahl, Jane Beauclerk, Calvin Demmon, Sonya Dorman, Terry Carr, and Jody Scott come most readily to mind.Astounding/Analog turned up R. C. FitzPatrick, Richard Olin, Rick Raphael, and Norman Spinrad over the same period.) The surgical stimulus to which we were both subjected has resulted in an intensification and acceleration of all mental processes. The unforeseen development, which I have taken the liberty of calling theAlgernon-Gordon Effect,is the logical extension of the entire intelligence speed-up. The hypothesis here proven may be described simply in the following terms: Artificially increased intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase. The Xi Scorpii Foundation would protest, of course. They would say he was misrepresenting the facts. But that didnt worry him. Men always said that when he exposed their iniquities, and it never made the slightest difference. The public always recognized the truth. A MAGUS Later the Old Man returned alone with some bananas and plantain leaves and dropped them through the bars into J. G.s cabin. Because of the scarcity of trees in that region, they had given up climbing and swinging from branches and, as a result, their arms were shorter and their legs longer and straighter than less isolated members of their species. And, because of their isolation, they were neither skittish nor moody. The Starman is out of the corridor and back in our dormitory. We lay awake talking last night, and he asked me about my second head. I told him he couldnt see it because it was inside my first head (natch!). Random interviews: It was funny, john gave the Starman a look, then pushed him and made him stumble against the wall. But the Starman went straight back and asked for another biscuit, john got mad and took him to the dormitory and shut the door. "Quite so," said Sullivan. "Ill fix that." He continued: " ... By and between John Fast, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Fast', and His Satanic Majesty, hereinafter sometimes referred to as 'The Devil', Witnesseth: Whereas Fast is desirous of certain improvements in his present circumstances; and Whereas The Devil is able to cause and bring about said improvements; now therefore, in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Article One. The Devil shall promptly cause the Hope Chemical Company to erect a plant for the production of terpineol, hereinafter referred to as 'Neol', and to make Fast the manager thereof. The Devil shall, with all deliberate speed, cause Fast to become a world-famous chemist, rich, respected, and to win at least two Nobel prizes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, The Devil will immediately enter upon the performance, and will continue same, for the full term of this Agreement, of every obligation set forth on Exhibit A, annexed hereto, and incorporated by reference herein." I am still strong and he is big and he comes fast..
