Robert Wicks
Robert Wicks is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, new Zealand. He specialises in Continental European philosophy and philosophical aesthetics, and has published both books and articles in these areas, including 'Nietzsche' (Oneworld 2002).
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Title: The Quantum Jump
Author: Robert Wicks
Release Date: January 24, 2008 [EBook #24418]
Language: English
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This story was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, October 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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The QUANTUM JUMP
By ROBERT WICKS
ILLUSTRATOR LLEWELLYN
Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the far reaches of space
knew more about what went on at home than he did.
BRANDON was looking at the Milky Way. Through his perma-glas canopy, he could see it trailing across the black velvet of space like a white bridal veil. Below his SC9B scout-ship stretched the red dust deserts of Sirius Three illuminated by the thin light of two ice moons. He looked at the Milky Way.
21 He looked at it as a man looks at a flickering fireplace and thinks of other things. He thought of the sun, 52 trillion miles away, a pinpoint of light lost in the dazzle of the Milky Way—the Earth a speck of dust in orbit just as this planet was to its master, Sirius.
Nine light years away. Of course, thirteen years had passed on Earth since they had left, because the trip took four years by RT—relative time. But even four years is a long time