Opener Number Two
Facet Land
Who would want to live on a planet terraformed into the shape of a perfect icosahedron? Who would dare carve each planet of an entire star system into the shape of one of the platonic solids? What kind of mind is driven to reshape every natural object it finds, even objects of planetary scale -- even living objects! -- into simple geometric forms? What kind of mind? A very, very alien mind, indeed.
Upon these thoughts, Lieutenant Harold "Hank" Mortensen of the United States Space Force meditated, as he lay strapped to a square table in an octahedral castle amidst a topiary of cubes, tetrahedra and rhombicosidodecahedra at the north pole of the icosahedral planet of HD 98618 c, and observed that the carving tool poised directly over his head was flawlessly fashioned in the shape of a great stellated dodecahedron.
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Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
1 Comments:
I like number 1 better.
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