By Arthur C. Clarke
Any of you looking for a classroom. GO AWAY! No school here! Damn you, enjoy you're vacations.
Some of you may already know this author for his book and movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey". Well, this guy also wrote an amazing short story which tells about some lizard aliens from Venus who come to Earth to research an extinct civilization.
You can find this story in the book, "Expedition to Earth".
Hope you find it!
The story begins following a group of surviving humans who head to a mountain, fleeing from the glaciers that come from the north.
This group carries what their ancestors brought with them. Although they're not sure what they are anymore, they worship the precious relics.
The head of the group then climbs the mountain which seems may resist the advance of the ice. When he gets to the summit he loses all hope. He can see now from the other side, from the south, the also approaching glaciers which he predicts in a couple of years will arrive along with the north ones and clash them. They hide the relics in the mountain and wait for the ice to reach them.
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A lot of time after that, the reptile aliens from Venus arrive to Earth eager to discover the civilization which perished with the cooling of the sun that gave birth to life in Venus. They are intelligent beings who have found some relics in a mountain not buried under the ice.
The most renowned scientists gather to try to study a relic which may give important information of how the dominant species' life was once on Earth. This relic is a film reel which the Venusines start seeing and are amazed and baffled by its contents.
Then the story tells that no matter how much they study it and analyse it: They will never comprehend the contents of it. For they cannot understand the last words in the film: A Production of Walt Disney.
Hope you liked it! Again the story is much better and it's better if you don't read the summary which obviously has the spoiler in the end.
Happy reading!
Some of you may already know this author for his book and movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey". Well, this guy also wrote an amazing short story which tells about some lizard aliens from Venus who come to Earth to research an extinct civilization.
You can find this story in the book, "Expedition to Earth".
Hope you find it!
The story begins following a group of surviving humans who head to a mountain, fleeing from the glaciers that come from the north.This group carries what their ancestors brought with them. Although they're not sure what they are anymore, they worship the precious relics.
The head of the group then climbs the mountain which seems may resist the advance of the ice. When he gets to the summit he loses all hope. He can see now from the other side, from the south, the also approaching glaciers which he predicts in a couple of years will arrive along with the north ones and clash them. They hide the relics in the mountain and wait for the ice to reach them.
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| A world of lizard scientists but no spider man. |
The most renowned scientists gather to try to study a relic which may give important information of how the dominant species' life was once on Earth. This relic is a film reel which the Venusines start seeing and are amazed and baffled by its contents.
Then the story tells that no matter how much they study it and analyse it: They will never comprehend the contents of it. For they cannot understand the last words in the film: A Production of Walt Disney.
Hope you liked it! Again the story is much better and it's better if you don't read the summary which obviously has the spoiler in the end.
Happy reading!
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