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Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Galaxy
Called Rome
By Barry N. Malzberg
contemporary
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A Galaxy Called Rome by Barry N. Malzberg
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A Galaxy Called Rome by Barry N. Malzberg
I
THIS IS NOT a novelette but a series of notes. The novelette
cannot be truly written because it partakes of its time, which is
distant and could be perceived only through the idiom and
devices of that era.
Thus the piece, by virtue of these reasons and others too
personal even for this variety of True Confession, is little more
than a set of constructions toward something less substantial ...
and, like the author, it cannot be completed.
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II
The novelette would lean heavily upon two articles by the late
John Campbell, for thirty-three years the editor of
Astounding/Analog , which were written shortly before his
untimely death on July 11, 1971, and appeared as editorials in
his magazine later that year, the second being perhaps the last
piece which will ever bear his byline. They imagine a black
galaxy which would result from the implosion of a neutron star,
an implosion so mighty that gravitational forces unleashed
would contain not only light itself but space and time; and A
Galaxy Called Rome is his title, not mine, since he envisions a
spacecraft that might be trapped within such a black galaxy and
be unable to get out ... because escape velocity would have to
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exceed the speed of light. All paths of travel would lead to this
galaxy, then, none away. A galaxy called Rome.
III
Conceive then of a faster-than-light spaceship which would
tumble into the black galaxy and would be unable to leave.
Tumbling would be easy, or at least inevitable, since one of the
characteristics of the black galaxy would be its invisibility , and
there the ship would be. The story would then pivot on the
efforts of the crew to get out. The ship is named Skipstone . It
was completed in 3892. Five hundred people died so that it
might fly, but in this age life is held even more cheaply than it is
today.
Left to my own devices, I might be less interested in the
escape problem than that of adjustment. Light housekeeping in
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