Deluge II
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Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Deluge II - Robert F. Young
Deluge II
by Robert F. Young
©2020 Positronic Publishing
Deluge II is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.
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Deluge II
Deluge II
The ancient stresses were ready to tear the earth apart, and only Anton Burke was ready. He planned to choose his passenger-list with care. But when the time came, his space-ship Ark was empty—save for the strangest friends a man could have on a journey to the stars.
The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar; All now was turned to jollity and game
—PARADISE LOST
In common with Stendhal, he sought after mistresses; in common with Stendhal, he won but few; in common with Stendhal, he was ugly to look at; in common with Stendhal, he was gifted with foresight. But he was destined to give his world no Julien Sorel, no exquisite Madame de Renal. His world would have received them with even less grace than Stendhal’s had. What he had to give was of a much more material nature—and yet, ironically, it brought him ridicule rather than fame. His name was Anton Burke.
He looked down now on the veldt over which his noiseless shooting-platform was bearing him. It was a vast veldt, and he owned every inch of it. Zebra roamed it; gnu, okapi and giraffe. Lion and lioness lolled in its sun-warmed grasses, hippopotamus and water buffalo wallowed in its muddy streams, rhinoceros and elephant grazed on its rolling plains. Incongruously there were tiger, kangaroo and ocelot. An acreage of riotous jungle harbored chimpanzee, gibbon and baboon; gorilla, Cercopithecidae—and orangutan. The Veldt, as the gleaming sign above its ornate entrance on Diversion Street in Old York proclaimed, was an all-purpose hunting-ground. Anton Burke, rich to begin with, had populated it at great expense with the species of fauna that had almost been killed off during the pre-exodus era, and as a result had become even richer.
Far to his right, smoke rose in a tenuous blue-white column. There were numerous hunting-parties abroad, and one of them could have grounded their platform in order to cook a midday meal. Or perhaps one of the maintenance androids was burning litter. Burke weighed both possibilities, tentatively rejected them. Recently the apartheid savages, whose reservation adjoined his land, had devised a means of penetrating his force-field fence and begun poaching —a circumstance that had prompted his present tour of investigation. The smoke could very well be their doing. He veered the platform to the right, leaned back in the harness and unslung his rifle. The ground dipped into a shallow gully, and the platform lurched slightly with the change of terrain. The source of the smoke proved to be a small cook-fire on the bank of a little brook. A solitary figure squatted before it, turning a