The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye

By Matthew Kressel

As the Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye wandered the galaxy harvesting dead stars, they liked to talk...

Thus begins the epic 2015 Nebula Award Short Story Finalist "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye" by Matthew Kressel, a galactic-spanning story that takes place over centuries, in a future where the galaxy has been obliterated by an enigmatic all-powerful entity known as The All-Seeing Eye. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Senses Five Press
• Release date: Nov 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386385998

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Praise for The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye

Accolades

2014 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Short Story

2015 BookTubeSFF Winner

Translated into Chinese and Romanian

Reviews

‘The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye’ by Matthew Kressel is an excellent story of a single huge creature, the Eye, roaming the universe with its story telling companion…This story is very entertaining, right from the start. You get a strong insight into these odd creatures with huge life times and some hints at all sorts of interesting cultures they have come across. The ending is excellent…I recommend this story – it’s definitely worth reading. –Tangent Online

A far-future horror story, an effective game of slow reveal, in which we gradually discover that the true is not what we had supposed. –Locus Online, Lois Tilton

The first story is ‘The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye’ by Matthew Kressel. The story opens with ‘As the Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye wandered the galaxy harvesting dead stars, they liked to talk.’ The Eye is a vast computer and the Meeker is her servant. He harvests dead stars to add to her mass. There are no other living creatures, just legends of them. On the current tour, they find an object floating in space. It contains genetic material which can be decoded by Meeker. After one unsuccessful try, the material is encoded to what we know is a woman of Earth. Her name is Beth. But she is sick and dies after telling them just a little about herself. Beth is revived many times and some things are revealed. Much more happens to make for a very good story. — SFRevu, Sam Tomaino

an evocative twist on a familiar, far-flung-future template…this story reminded me of both Asimov’s The Last Question and Sheckley’s The Specialist." I most enjoyed the structural movements in this story–the lulling descriptions of millennia’s-worth of travel in the first section, the gradually