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Plucky teenager Myrna Brill doesn't always follow the strict rules imposed on her and fellow residents of the small, tightly governed community she lives in. So when she sets out to discover the truth about the world and finds herself jetting off into outer space, she takes the journey in stride.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776596799
Langue	English

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THE GUARDIANS
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IRVING E. COX

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The Guardians First published in 1955 Epub ISBN 978-1-77659-679-9 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77659-680-5 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
The Guardians
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It's not always "The Truth shall set you free!" Sometimes it's "Want of the Truth shall drive you to escape!" And that can be dangerous!
Mryna Brill intended to ride the god-car above the rain mist. For a longtime she had not believed in the taboos or the Earth-god. She no longerbelieved she lived on Earth. This paradise of green-floored forests andrunning brooks was something called Rythar.
Six years ago, when Mryna was fourteen, she first discovered the truth.She asked a question and the Earth-god ignored it. A simple question,really: What is above the rain mist? God could have told her. Every dayhe answered technical questions that were far more difficult. Instead,he repeated the familiar taboo about avoiding the Old Village because ofthe Sickness.
And consequently Mryna, being female, went to the Old Village. There wasnothing really unusual about that. All the kids went through the ruinsfrom time to time. They had worked out a sort of charm that made it allright. They ran past the burned out shells of the old houses and theykept their eyes shaded to ward off the Sickness.
But even at fourteen Mryna had outgrown charms and she didn't believe inthe Sickness. She had once asked the Earth-god what sickness meant, andthe screen in the answer house had given her a very detailed answer.Mryna knew that none of the hundred girls and thirty boys inhabitingRythar had ever been sick. That, like the taboo of the Old Village, sheconsidered a childish superstition.
The Old Village wasn't large—three parallel roads, a mile long, linedwith the charred ruins of prefabs, which were exactly like the cottageswhere the kids lived. It was nothing to inspire either fear or legend.The village had burned a long time ago; the grass from the forest hadgrown a green mantle over the skeletal walls.
For weeks Mryna poked through the ruins before she found anything ofsignificance—a few, scorched pages of a printed pamphlet buried deep inthe black earth. The paper excited her tremendously. It was differentfrom the film books photographed in the answer house. She had nevertouched anything like it; and it seemed wonderful stuff.
She read the pamphlet eagerly. It was part of a promotionaladvertisement of a world called Rythar, "the jewel of the Sirian SolarSystem."
The description made it obvious that Rythar was the green paradise whereMryna lived—the place she had been taught to call Earth.