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"There's this gal on Alaspin, she's an archeologist thinks she's onto
somethin'. Been wantin' me to come
'round that way for a couple o' years and help her out on some big dig. As
I've only been to Alaspin once be-fore, I think I might just drop down that
way and look her up again."
"Then if not for the friends, why would you want to come back?"
"Why, young feller-me-lad?" September's smile wid-ened. "You saw the carvings
and inscriptions and mo-saics in the mountain-city, and you heard our teacher
friend Milliken hypothesize a different ecology, where the predominant color's
green 'stead of white.
"Yes, I'd like to come back allright. In about ten thousand years or so when
this world swings close by its star again and the cycle shifts from cold to
warm. I'd like to sail these same oceans again in a real boat, though the ol'
Slanderscree's got her points." He tapped the wooden rail affectionately.
"Think on those carvings again, feller-me-lad. Ten thousand years from now,
why, it'd be nice to be here.
Because when those frozen seeds thaw out fast, there's gonna be a few hundred
billion flowers all bloomin' at once."
About the Author
Born in New York City in 1946, Alan Dean Foster was raised in Los Angeles,
California. After receiv-ing
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Alan Dean Foster - Mission to Moulokin a Bachelor's degree in Political
Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Motion Pictures from UCLA in 1968-
69, he worked for two years as a public relations copywriter in a small Studio
City, Califor-nia firm.
His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long letter of
Foster's and published it as a short story in his biannual
Arkham Collector Magazine
. Sales of short fiction to other magazines followed. His first try at a
novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang
, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972.
Foster has toured extensively through Asia and the isles of the Pacific.
Besides traveling he enjoys classical and rock music, old films, basketball,
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body surfing, and karate. He has taught screen writing, lit-erature, and film
history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College.
Currently he resides in Arizona with his wife JoAnn (who is reputed to have
the only extant recipe for
Barbarian Cream Pie).
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