In the future, the safe but homogenous and boring utopia has been rolled back to allow disease and death, as well as differing nations of humanity. Two citizens, newly become French and newly in love, decide to visit a mysterious ancient computer reputed to have the power of prognostication, which can only be reached via the ruins of an ancient avenue through the sky.
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Placement
- The Instrumentality of Mankind
- contained in Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and the Furthest Horizonomnibus
- contained in The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fictionanthology
- contained in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eleventh Seriesanthology
- contained in The Best of Cordwainer Smithcollection
- contained in The Ends of Timeanthology
- contained in The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Futureanthology
- contained in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990anthology
- contained in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smithcollection
- contained in Under Old Earth and Other Explorationscollection
- contained in We the Underpeoplecollection
- contained in You Will Never Be the Samecollection