"Omega, the Man" (1933) by Lowell Howard Morrow, with Notes, up on Fantastic Worlds!
“Omega, the Man”
© 1933
by
Lowell Howard Morrow
The silver airship cut swiftly through the hot thin air. The noonday sun blazed down upon it and the desert world below. All about was the solemn silence of death. No living thing appeared either in the air or on the drab, gray earth. Only the aircraft itself displayed any signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, held not the shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains notched into it like the teeth of a giant saw (1).
The airship finally came to a hovering stop, then dropped rapidly toward the salt-encrusted plain. It came to rest at last on the bottom of a great, bowl-shaped hollow situated at the end of a chasm whose gray, rock-strewn sides rose in rugged terraces for miles back into the sky. In a few moments a panel in the vessel's side rolled noiselessly upward, disclosing a brilliant light, and from the interior of the airship soon appeared two figures who paused at the aperture and gazed out over the parched earth. Then without fear or visible effort-although they were seventy-five feet above the ground-they emerged from the ship and floated down to earth.
These two humans-the sole survivors of all earth's children-were man and wife-Omega and Thalma.
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The last humans on Earth? What is their purpose? Will they succeed?
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© 1933
by
Lowell Howard Morrow
The silver airship cut swiftly through the hot thin air. The noonday sun blazed down upon it and the desert world below. All about was the solemn silence of death. No living thing appeared either in the air or on the drab, gray earth. Only the aircraft itself displayed any signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, held not the shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains notched into it like the teeth of a giant saw (1).
The airship finally came to a hovering stop, then dropped rapidly toward the salt-encrusted plain. It came to rest at last on the bottom of a great, bowl-shaped hollow situated at the end of a chasm whose gray, rock-strewn sides rose in rugged terraces for miles back into the sky. In a few moments a panel in the vessel's side rolled noiselessly upward, disclosing a brilliant light, and from the interior of the airship soon appeared two figures who paused at the aperture and gazed out over the parched earth. Then without fear or visible effort-although they were seventy-five feet above the ground-they emerged from the ship and floated down to earth.
These two humans-the sole survivors of all earth's children-were man and wife-Omega and Thalma.
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The last humans on Earth? What is their purpose? Will they succeed?
Find out, on Fantastic Worlds!