Age of Aether

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THE DAY Benjamin Bantam had waited for all his life was here at last.

And what a day it was! Crisp navy-blue skies were filled with marbled clouds that drifted in small whirls here and there — with just the right amount of sun-soaked wind keening off nearby Mirror Lake.

Ah, perfect. It was exactly as he recalled.

As Bantam sat on the park bench, he glanced over his shoulder at the massive Army base behind him. Fort MacLaren. Somewhere beyond the barbed wire was the top secret Gaultier-Ross Supercollider. It would be charging by now, he thought. The very thought made his scalp tingle.

No, he corrected himself: it would actually have been charging for weeks at this point. Remember?

He laughed at his faded memories. Ah, well. That was inevitable for a man of his very advanced age.

Somewhere very close, but beneath the ground, a great circular chamber several miles in diameter was purring with enriched tachyon energy, building up to release a Volzstrang Wave in a single massive detonation…

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