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Childish Things

by Bud Sparhawk

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Science Fiction

First published in Analog, December 1994

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“I think it is time to go,” the humaniform complex prompted itself gently as it floated above the warm

green world. “We can't wait much longer.” The complex contemplated the planet's attributes in

ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio bands, wondering with each frequency shift at the beauty

revealed. Here was the place of a civilization's birth. Here was the cradle of science, philosophy, of

literature, and art. Here was where a people had learned of their limits and possibilities, of their place in

the universe. It was a lovely place, an empty place, the sweet cradle of knowledge.

* * * *

“We've confirmed that it's definitely an ordered set of signals, using the protocol that you requested,” the

Lunar watch office reported from the Clarke Bank late in the evening, Greenwich time. “We're recording

it on sixteen discrete frequencies, none of which have a common harmonic nor run afoul any of the

absorption windows.”

“So you're saying that you definitely have a confirmed extraterrestrial signal,” Dr Hugh Banker asked

dryly from his High Street office, near the “observatory” where no significant star had been seen

optically for fifty years because of the luminescent pollution of greater London, and awaited the

inevitable delay for the signal to bounce through the satellite links to the Lunar base.

“That's affirmative! Yes, yes, and yes! We have a guaranteed, gold plated, died in the wool, absolutely,

positively certain...”

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