Project Gutenberg 2006-05-08 Public domain in the USA. 111 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam The Answer Produced from Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, December, 1959 Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Answer" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction short story originally published in the late 1950s. It delves into the repercussions of nuclear conflict and the psychological effects of past traumas on its characters. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where two scientists reflect on the events of a nuclear war that devastated their respective nations and the importance of their current scientific experiment. In the narrative, Lee Richardson and his colleague Alexis Pitov prepare for a scientific experiment involving a negamatter missile that they hope will yield crucial insights into the fundamental structures of matter. As they confront their shared histories and the horrors of the past—specifically, a missile that had annihilated their cities—they discuss the catastrophe of the Auburn Bomb that had catalyzed their loss. Throughout the experiment, they wrestle with the weight of their collective guilt, embers of distrust from their former rivalry, and the ominous possibilities of their current research. The story culminates in an unexpected revelation about the nature of their experiment and the haunting connections to their previous traumas, emphasizing themes of regret, redemption, and the enduring consequences of human actions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 52992 52993 2024-10-08T07:27:15.624315 2023-09-08T09:11:03.190494 text/html text/html 49553 2006-05-08T07:30:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 19176 2006-05-08T07:30:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 86613 2024-10-08T07:27:19.572327 application/epub+zip 85353 2024-10-08T07:27:17.320286 application/epub+zip 85351 2024-10-08T07:27:16.215316 application/epub+zip 155165 2024-10-08T07:27:21.254318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 147637 2024-10-08T07:27:18.928299 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 123945 2022-09-08T16:00:14.852447 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 47101 47003 2024-10-08T07:27:15.361311 2023-09-08T09:11:03.023499 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 47013 2006-05-08T07:30:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18231 2006-05-08T07:30:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20278 2024-10-08T07:27:21.381265 application/rdf+xml 10974 2024-10-08T07:27:16.749290 image/jpeg 2998 2024-10-08T07:27:16.480295 image/jpeg 84933 2024-10-08T07:27:15.630300 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia