Yet, even then I marvelled that any book should have story so much like to mine; not heeding that the history of all love is writ with one pen.
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Millions of years in the future, the sun has gone out and the last of humanity lives inside the Last Redoubt, a vast metal pyramid surrounded by a dark land of monsters and malign powers. A man grieving his dead love in our own age dreams himself into the body of a youth in that far future, where he hears a faint call from a lost second refuge. Written in a deliberately archaic voice, it is one of the founding works of far-future and cosmic horror fiction.
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Aye, even to the memories which were the possession of that far future youth, who was indeed I, of his childhood's days, when his nurse of that Age swung him, and crooned impossible lullabies of this mythical sun which, according to those future fairy-tales…
…and thus the four watchers kept ward through the darkness, upon the Pyramid, and moved not, neither gave they out any sound. Yet did we know them to be mountains of living watchfulness and hideous and steadfast intelligence.
To my right, which was to the North, there stood, very far away, the House of Silence, upon a low hill. And in that House were many lights, and no sound. And so had it been through an uncountable Eternity of Years. Always those steady lights, and no whisper…
I stood in one of the embrasures of the Last Redoubt—that great Pyramid of grey metal which held the last millions of this world from the Powers of the Slayers.
To me, in this last time of my visions, of which I would tell, it was not as if I dreamed; but, as it were, that I waked there into the dark, in the future of this world. And the sun had died; and for me thus newly waked into that Future, to look back upon…