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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Messenger - -Author: William Morrison - -Release Date: September 25, 2021 [eBook #66381] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MESSENGER *** - - - - - MESSENGER - - By William Morrison - - He had to find a single planet somewhere - in the vast Universe. The trouble was, if he - found it--would he remember what he must do? - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - July 1954 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -He knew that there had been trouble, and he had been told what he had -to do. The trouble was he had forgotten. He didn't remember where it -was. - -He had been speeding past an off-color white dwarf when it happened. -If he had taken the trouble to look around, he would have seen that -the white star was going to explode. He knew a potential nova when he -took a good look at one. But after all these centuries he had grown -careless, and when the blast had come--the small star suddenly blazing -into a billion-fold brilliance--the penetrating radiation had hit him -with full intensity. There had been no ship to protect him, no clothing -that might serve as a shield. His kind had done away with such things -eons before, as they had learned to move through space by using some -of the radiant energy that filled it. - -He had blacked out completely. - -When he came to again, he was far past the nova, in the dazzling -brightness of a rarefied cloud of radiant hydrogen atoms. The nova -itself had lost so much of its momentary brilliance that it was now -indistinguishable from the myriads of other stars. He himself was -speeding on with feverish haste toward a nebular cluster a thousand -light years away. - -He slowed down. He had the feeling that the distant cluster was not his -proper destination. But what was? What star, what planet was the spot -in space he had to find? And what was he supposed to do once he got -there? - -And who had given him the instructions? Where, in the vast immensity -of the universe was the place called "home", the place where he could -return for the information he had forgotten? - -He didn't recall. He knew only, with that same distressing vagueness, -that somewhere there was something he had been ordered to do. And that -once given, the order had to be carried out. - -He traveled aimlessly, by feeling alone. Time meant nothing to him as -an individual, for his kind had long mastered the problems of age. But -time meant much to those he had been sent to--to do what? Was it to -help? They must be waiting for him now. They must be wondering why he -didn't come. - -He would have to hurry. Hurry to do something he didn't yet suspect, -but would sooner or later remember. - -After a few centuries, he began, in his anxiety, to talk to himself, -as is the way of individuals too long alone. "That star cluster there -could be it," he said to himself hopefully, and veered toward the right. - -"Doesn't look familiar, though," he muttered. "Maybe if I would get -closer--" - -He came close enough to see the thousands of stars as individuals, to -pick out the satellites circling the bright discs of light, to study -the pale planets themselves and their tiny subsatellites. As he turned -his attention from one to another, disappointment slowly filled him. -No, this was not the place. There was nothing in the configuration of -the stars, nothing in the size or position of the planets that sounded -a familiar chord in his consciousness. He would have to go further--or -turn back. - - * * * * * - -He left the place behind him. The next time the same thing happened he -didn't have quite so much hope, and his disappointment was less keen. -But it was disappointment none the less. Time was passing, and they -must be waiting for him impatiently. - -After a while the hope and the disappointment both died away almost -completely. The former shrank to a tiny spark that grew dimmer and -dimmer as the centuries passed. He wondered if it would ever wink out -entirely. - -It was characteristic of him that the anxiety this caused was only -for those who were waiting, expecting him hourly, and wondering why -he didn't come. He had no sense of fear for himself, no feeling of -despairing loneliness that might be expected to arise from being so -long isolated in space. It was only that he would have liked some one -to talk to, besides himself. - -On a fair number of planets he found animal-like creatures in -different stages of development, and on a few he discovered life that -was intelligent. It was with these that he had a renewed feeling of -anticipation, the spark of hope glowing momentarily before it faded -again. - -"It's intelligent life I've got to find," he told himself. "But where?" - -His astronomical memory, insofar as it covered the post-nova -period, was perfect, and he paid more attention to the details of -star-and-planet configuration than he had ever done before. Gradually -a star-map formed in his mind, a map that covered enormous distances -of space. Those places he had investigated and eliminated from -consideration were slowly crossed off. It was a large needle he had to -find, and his own powers were considerable, but the haystack he had to -search was infinite. There was no telling how many more centuries would -pass before he found it. - -And then another thought struck him. They'd know back home that -something had gone wrong. Would they send someone else to do the job in -his place? - -He rather doubted it. He had a vague feeling that there weren't many -with his own peculiar talents. What had to be done had to be done by -him, or left undone altogether. - -More time passed. And one day, when the space charted on his brain-map -had grown to vast dimensions, and the spark of hope had become so tiny -that he was not quite sure any longer that it was there at all, he -noted from a distance a galaxy that seemed familiar. - -"That's it!" he cried. "That's it!" - -The spark flared, and as he sped toward the galaxy it became a flame. -It was a lens-shaped assemblage of stars, with two small spiral arms -composed of a few million stars each, and it was seemingly not too -different from millions of other galaxies he had passed in the course -of all those centuries. But to him, seeking so desperately, this galaxy -was unique. It was the right one. He coursed through it from spiral arm -to spiral arm, and now there could be no doubt. The star he wanted was -small and yellowish, far from the center of the lens. It had a rather -elaborate planetary system, which he recognized at once. - -This was it. The third planet, the one with a single subsatellite, was -the one he had been sent to find. To find, and perhaps to help. But how? - -The finding of the planet had solved one problem. So far it had given -him not a hint toward the solution of the second--the reason why he had -been sent here. - - * * * * * - -There was life on this ball of mud and water, a great deal of life, -both vegetable and animal. And some of the latter could, without too -great a distortion of the truth, be called intelligent. It had raised -cities, tunneled into mountains, changed the appearance of sections of -the planet itself. It was to this intelligent life that he had been -sent. - -A dim memory of the need for caution kept him from letting himself be -seen. "I'd only frighten them," he thought. "I'll have to investigate -thoroughly before I reveal myself. And maybe the investigation will -remind me of what I have to do." - -The first thing was to come down to earth. Choosing the dark side of -the planet, shaded from the central sun by its own bulk, he shrank his -body and let himself drop in the gravitational field. From time to time -he slowed his fall in order to keep from flaming through the atmosphere -and attracting their attention. And at a thousand feet above the -surface he came to a complete stop, hovering over a city, and making up -his mind where to land. - -Something droned toward him through the air, colored lights winking -on and off. He darted downward and to one side. Where the city lights -faded out, he let himself fall all the way to the ground. - -He was off a dimly lit highway. Small metal vehicles ran along it, -their lights momentarily tearing apart the darkness ahead of them. A -glance through the metal at the creatures inside the vehicles gave him -a queer thrill. Yes, these were the ones he had been sent to. - -Quickly reshaping his body and clothing himself so that he seemed to -be one of them, he began to walk along the highway. Cars sped past him, -picking him out in their headlights. None of them stopped, but he had -time to probe their minds and listen to their language. - -What he found was not pleasant. Among all the feelings which controlled -their thoughts, fear was easiest to detect. And along with the fear -were hatred and envy and greed, anxiety and guilt. Oddly enough, there -were also hope and affection for each other, but it was the worse -feelings that predominated. There was no doubt that they needed help. - -That didn't make any clearer, however, what he had to do. He had an -idea that it was not his mission to work out a detailed solution. He -had to do some simple thing, something-- - -The two men were lying in wait, either for him or for some other -pedestrian they judged sufficiently unwary. He sensed them long before -the first one stepped out toward him, a cigarette in one hand and what -was supposed to be an ingratiating look on the brutal face. - -"Got a match, bud?" - -The other man suddenly plunged at him from the side, an arm wrapping -itself around his neck. The assailant tried to bend him back, the -forearm cutting across his windpipe. The arm of the first man swung, a -rough fist smashing at his face. - -Then the two assailants screamed in pain and terror. Where they had -touched him, fist and arm broke into flame. Both men turned from him in -horror, and ran off wildly, as if to get away from themselves. - -He hadn't meant to hurt them, but they had contrived their own -punishment. Perhaps--no, that wasn't it. He wasn't here to punish -either. - -He walked along, and soon he found himself entering the city. A man in -a blue uniform watched him suspiciously and ordered him gruffly to get -moving. - -"I am moving," he said pleasantly. - -"Don't you get wise with me," said the bluecoat, and raised a -threatening club. - -He paid no attention to the club and kept on, toward the heart of the -city. - -What he saw only confirmed the impression he had obtained from the -minds of the men and women in the cars. Too many thoughts were mean and -ignoble, arising only from selfish and vicious desires. Many of those -who saw him seemed to sense his strangeness, and moved toward him with -a single impulse--to take advantage of his ignorance. Men spoke to him -out of the sides of their mouths, offering him bargains. Women offered -themselves. - -"_Look, Mac, this stuff is hot, see? Just came off a truck_--" - -"_Wanta look at some nice pictures, Mister?_" - -"_I can give you a good address, Bud._" - -"_Out for a good time, Jack?_" - -The planet was sick. Had he been sent to cure it? - - * * * * * - -He came to an area of broad lighted streets. Lights glittered -everywhere, attracting the attention of those around him by going on -and off. Great posters advertised the attractions inside places of -amusement. - -He entered one of them, an astonished ticket-collector calling after -him, "Hey, where's your ticket, Bud?" But there was something about him -that prevented the man from pursuing. - -He lost himself in the darkness and watched the screen. Here, in -brief and vivid form, was pictured the life of the planet. Women in -bathing suits plunged into a pool and formed a pattern which imitated -sensuously the petals of an unfolding rose. A small animal leaped -through hoops and climbed a ladder. Groups of men drove against each -other for possession of an object which they kicked occasionally -into the air. An elderly man looked grim and made a speech into a -microphone. And then a film showed the main business of the planet, -which seemed to be the killing of its supposedly intelligent -inhabitants. Bombs exploded, planes crashed, desperate lines of men ran -forward to meet their deaths. - -Something quickened in his mind. He almost remembered now. This was -what he had come here about. - -His will moved, and the theatre vanished behind him. Now he was on the -battlefield itself. - -The reality was worse than the image, far worse. Here were not only the -roars of the great guns, but the curses and screams of the wounded, the -gasps of the dying. Here were not only horrible sights and sounds, but -the odors of death--the sharp nitrogenous fragrance of explosives, the -heavy sulfurous smoke of burning oil, the sickening smell of sweating -or decaying flesh. - -A cloud came into being from the explosion of a mortar shell, and two -men dropped to the ground. In answer to the mortar, the flaring barrel -of a tank gun spoke hoarsely, and half the crew of the mortar fell in -turn. But there seemed no end to this deadly dialogue. The next moment -there came the burst of a bomb from a low-flying plane, and the tank -half turned over on its side, a heap of smoking steel. - -He knew at last why he had been sent here. He knew now what he had to -do. - -He ripped the flaring-mouthed gun from the tank. His hands twisted the -thick metal into a shape it had never known before, bent it into a -strange curve, fashioned it so that it would emit overtones to chill -the souls of those who heard it. 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The trouble was, if he<br /> -found it—would he remember what he must do?</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -July 1954<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He knew that there had been trouble, and he had been told what he had -to do. The trouble was he had forgotten. He didn't remember where it -was.</p> - -<p>He had been speeding past an off-color white dwarf when it happened. -If he had taken the trouble to look around, he would have seen that -the white star was going to explode. He knew a potential nova when he -took a good look at one. But after all these centuries he had grown -careless, and when the blast had come—the small star suddenly blazing -into a billion-fold brilliance—the penetrating radiation had hit him -with full intensity. There had been no ship to protect him, no clothing -that might serve as a shield. His kind had done away with such things -eons before, as they had learned to move through space by using some -of the radiant energy that filled it.</p> - -<p>He had blacked out completely.</p> - -<p>When he came to again, he was far past the nova, in the dazzling -brightness of a rarefied cloud of radiant hydrogen atoms. The nova -itself had lost so much of its momentary brilliance that it was now -indistinguishable from the myriads of other stars. He himself was -speeding on with feverish haste toward a nebular cluster a thousand -light years away.</p> - -<p>He slowed down. He had the feeling that the distant cluster was not his -proper destination. But what was? What star, what planet was the spot -in space he had to find? And what was he supposed to do once he got -there?</p> - -<p>And who had given him the instructions? Where, in the vast immensity -of the universe was the place called "home", the place where he could -return for the information he had forgotten?</p> - -<p>He didn't recall. He knew only, with that same distressing vagueness, -that somewhere there was something he had been ordered to do. And that -once given, the order had to be carried out.</p> - -<p>He traveled aimlessly, by feeling alone. Time meant nothing to him as -an individual, for his kind had long mastered the problems of age. But -time meant much to those he had been sent to—to do what? Was it to -help? They must be waiting for him now. They must be wondering why he -didn't come.</p> - -<p>He would have to hurry. Hurry to do something he didn't yet suspect, -but would sooner or later remember.</p> - -<p>After a few centuries, he began, in his anxiety, to talk to himself, -as is the way of individuals too long alone. "That star cluster there -could be it," he said to himself hopefully, and veered toward the right.</p> - -<p>"Doesn't look familiar, though," he muttered. "Maybe if I would get -closer—"</p> - -<p>He came close enough to see the thousands of stars as individuals, to -pick out the satellites circling the bright discs of light, to study -the pale planets themselves and their tiny subsatellites. As he turned -his attention from one to another, disappointment slowly filled him. -No, this was not the place. There was nothing in the configuration of -the stars, nothing in the size or position of the planets that sounded -a familiar chord in his consciousness. He would have to go further—or -turn back.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He left the place behind him. The next time the same thing happened he -didn't have quite so much hope, and his disappointment was less keen. -But it was disappointment none the less. Time was passing, and they -must be waiting for him impatiently.</p> - -<p>After a while the hope and the disappointment both died away almost -completely. The former shrank to a tiny spark that grew dimmer and -dimmer as the centuries passed. He wondered if it would ever wink out -entirely.</p> - -<p>It was characteristic of him that the anxiety this caused was only -for those who were waiting, expecting him hourly, and wondering why -he didn't come. He had no sense of fear for himself, no feeling of -despairing loneliness that might be expected to arise from being so -long isolated in space. It was only that he would have liked some one -to talk to, besides himself.</p> - -<p>On a fair number of planets he found animal-like creatures in -different stages of development, and on a few he discovered life that -was intelligent. It was with these that he had a renewed feeling of -anticipation, the spark of hope glowing momentarily before it faded -again.</p> - -<p>"It's intelligent life I've got to find," he told himself. "But where?"</p> - -<p>His astronomical memory, insofar as it covered the post-nova -period, was perfect, and he paid more attention to the details of -star-and-planet configuration than he had ever done before. Gradually -a star-map formed in his mind, a map that covered enormous distances -of space. Those places he had investigated and eliminated from -consideration were slowly crossed off. It was a large needle he had to -find, and his own powers were considerable, but the haystack he had to -search was infinite. There was no telling how many more centuries would -pass before he found it.</p> - -<p>And then another thought struck him. They'd know back home that -something had gone wrong. Would they send someone else to do the job in -his place?</p> - -<p>He rather doubted it. He had a vague feeling that there weren't many -with his own peculiar talents. What had to be done had to be done by -him, or left undone altogether.</p> - -<p>More time passed. And one day, when the space charted on his brain-map -had grown to vast dimensions, and the spark of hope had become so tiny -that he was not quite sure any longer that it was there at all, he -noted from a distance a galaxy that seemed familiar.</p> - -<p>"That's it!" he cried. "That's it!"</p> - -<p>The spark flared, and as he sped toward the galaxy it became a flame. -It was a lens-shaped assemblage of stars, with two small spiral arms -composed of a few million stars each, and it was seemingly not too -different from millions of other galaxies he had passed in the course -of all those centuries. But to him, seeking so desperately, this galaxy -was unique. It was the right one. He coursed through it from spiral arm -to spiral arm, and now there could be no doubt. The star he wanted was -small and yellowish, far from the center of the lens. It had a rather -elaborate planetary system, which he recognized at once.</p> - -<p>This was it. The third planet, the one with a single subsatellite, was -the one he had been sent to find. To find, and perhaps to help. But how?</p> - -<p>The finding of the planet had solved one problem. So far it had given -him not a hint toward the solution of the second—the reason why he had -been sent here.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There was life on this ball of mud and water, a great deal of life, -both vegetable and animal. And some of the latter could, without too -great a distortion of the truth, be called intelligent. It had raised -cities, tunneled into mountains, changed the appearance of sections of -the planet itself. It was to this intelligent life that he had been -sent.</p> - -<p>A dim memory of the need for caution kept him from letting himself be -seen. "I'd only frighten them," he thought. "I'll have to investigate -thoroughly before I reveal myself. And maybe the investigation will -remind me of what I have to do."</p> - -<p>The first thing was to come down to earth. Choosing the dark side of -the planet, shaded from the central sun by its own bulk, he shrank his -body and let himself drop in the gravitational field. From time to time -he slowed his fall in order to keep from flaming through the atmosphere -and attracting their attention. And at a thousand feet above the -surface he came to a complete stop, hovering over a city, and making up -his mind where to land.</p> - -<p>Something droned toward him through the air, colored lights winking -on and off. He darted downward and to one side. Where the city lights -faded out, he let himself fall all the way to the ground.</p> - -<p>He was off a dimly lit highway. Small metal vehicles ran along it, -their lights momentarily tearing apart the darkness ahead of them. A -glance through the metal at the creatures inside the vehicles gave him -a queer thrill. Yes, these were the ones he had been sent to.</p> - -<p>Quickly reshaping his body and clothing himself so that he seemed to -be one of them, he began to walk along the highway. Cars sped past him, -picking him out in their headlights. None of them stopped, but he had -time to probe their minds and listen to their language.</p> - -<p>What he found was not pleasant. Among all the feelings which controlled -their thoughts, fear was easiest to detect. And along with the fear -were hatred and envy and greed, anxiety and guilt. Oddly enough, there -were also hope and affection for each other, but it was the worse -feelings that predominated. There was no doubt that they needed help.</p> - -<p>That didn't make any clearer, however, what he had to do. He had an -idea that it was not his mission to work out a detailed solution. He -had to do some simple thing, something—</p> - -<p>The two men were lying in wait, either for him or for some other -pedestrian they judged sufficiently unwary. He sensed them long before -the first one stepped out toward him, a cigarette in one hand and what -was supposed to be an ingratiating look on the brutal face.</p> - -<p>"Got a match, bud?"</p> - -<p>The other man suddenly plunged at him from the side, an arm wrapping -itself around his neck. The assailant tried to bend him back, the -forearm cutting across his windpipe. The arm of the first man swung, a -rough fist smashing at his face.</p> - -<p>Then the two assailants screamed in pain and terror. Where they had -touched him, fist and arm broke into flame. Both men turned from him in -horror, and ran off wildly, as if to get away from themselves.</p> - -<p>He hadn't meant to hurt them, but they had contrived their own -punishment. Perhaps—no, that wasn't it. He wasn't here to punish -either.</p> - -<p>He walked along, and soon he found himself entering the city. A man in -a blue uniform watched him suspiciously and ordered him gruffly to get -moving.</p> - -<p>"I am moving," he said pleasantly.</p> - -<p>"Don't you get wise with me," said the bluecoat, and raised a -threatening club.</p> - -<p>He paid no attention to the club and kept on, toward the heart of the -city.</p> - -<p>What he saw only confirmed the impression he had obtained from the -minds of the men and women in the cars. Too many thoughts were mean and -ignoble, arising only from selfish and vicious desires. Many of those -who saw him seemed to sense his strangeness, and moved toward him with -a single impulse—to take advantage of his ignorance. Men spoke to him -out of the sides of their mouths, offering him bargains. Women offered -themselves.</p> - -<p>"<i>Look, Mac, this stuff is hot, see? Just came off a truck</i>—"</p> - -<p>"<i>Wanta look at some nice pictures, Mister?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>I can give you a good address, Bud.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Out for a good time, Jack?</i>"</p> - -<p>The planet was sick. Had he been sent to cure it?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He came to an area of broad lighted streets. Lights glittered -everywhere, attracting the attention of those around him by going on -and off. Great posters advertised the attractions inside places of -amusement.</p> - -<p>He entered one of them, an astonished ticket-collector calling after -him, "Hey, where's your ticket, Bud?" But there was something about him -that prevented the man from pursuing.</p> - -<p>He lost himself in the darkness and watched the screen. Here, in -brief and vivid form, was pictured the life of the planet. Women in -bathing suits plunged into a pool and formed a pattern which imitated -sensuously the petals of an unfolding rose. A small animal leaped -through hoops and climbed a ladder. Groups of men drove against each -other for possession of an object which they kicked occasionally -into the air. An elderly man looked grim and made a speech into a -microphone. And then a film showed the main business of the planet, -which seemed to be the killing of its supposedly intelligent -inhabitants. Bombs exploded, planes crashed, desperate lines of men ran -forward to meet their deaths.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Something quickened in his mind. He almost remembered now. This was -what he had come here about.</p> - -<p>His will moved, and the theatre vanished behind him. Now he was on the -battlefield itself.</p> - -<p>The reality was worse than the image, far worse. Here were not only the -roars of the great guns, but the curses and screams of the wounded, the -gasps of the dying. Here were not only horrible sights and sounds, but -the odors of death—the sharp nitrogenous fragrance of explosives, the -heavy sulfurous smoke of burning oil, the sickening smell of sweating -or decaying flesh.</p> - -<p>A cloud came into being from the explosion of a mortar shell, and two -men dropped to the ground. In answer to the mortar, the flaring barrel -of a tank gun spoke hoarsely, and half the crew of the mortar fell in -turn. But there seemed no end to this deadly dialogue. The next moment -there came the burst of a bomb from a low-flying plane, and the tank -half turned over on its side, a heap of smoking steel.</p> - -<p>He knew at last why he had been sent here. He knew now what he had to -do.</p> - -<p>He ripped the flaring-mouthed gun from the tank. His hands twisted the -thick metal into a shape it had never known before, bent it into a -strange curve, fashioned it so that it would emit overtones to chill -the souls of those who heard it. 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