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AMERICA 2040 Volume 3



CITY IN THE MIST

Evan Innes



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Copyright┬й1987 by Book Creations, Inc .

ISBN 0-553-26204-1



CITY IN THE MIST



PROLOGUE



From the journal of Evangeline Burr, official historian, theSpirit of America



In the brief time that we have been on our new planet, the odd and wonderful Omega, so much has
happened that I have fallen behind in keeping my records. It has been a time of hope and disappointment,
of bizarre discoveries and terrible tragedies.

Our new world presented a kind face to us at first. In Eden, the committee-chosen name for the area of
land we have made our own, the climate was mild and the wildlife posed no threat. The only visible
predator, a small, lionlike cat, liked to have his tummy scratched, and the bees did not have stingers. That
Omega might have hidden perils was made clear to us when we lost a woman to a giant worm similar to
a slug, later to be called a miner because of the beastтАЩs ability to burrow deeply into solid rock.

Our commander, Captain Duncan Rodrick, became seriously concerned when a mineral exploration
party led by Stoner McRae discovered an ancient city built of stone. We still do not know who built the
city, where they are now, or why they abandoned it. How far might that civilization have progressed since
the time when the city was builtтАФif the culture still survivesтАФand does it pose a threat to us now?

But our greatest tragedy to date, one that not even RodrickтАЩs care could have prevented, was sadly
unnecessary and came as the result of the dissatisfaction of the egotistical first officer, Rocky Miller.
Commander Miller stirred the fires of a dissident group of scientists and led a party of ninety families,
some two hundred men, women, and children, into a deadly ambush staged by one of the indigenous
intelligent life forms, the insectlike Whorsk. Dr. Mandy Miller, the commanderтАЩs wife, was the only