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Doing Lennon
Gregory Benford
A DF Books N.E.R.D’s Release
Copyright (C)1975 Gregory Benford
First published in Analog Magazine of Science Fact and Fiction, April 1975
Sanity calms, but madness
is more interesting.
—JOHN RUSSELL
As the hideous cold seeps from him he feels everything becoming sharp and clear
again. He decides he can do it, he can make it work. He opens his eyes.
“Hello.” His voice rasps. “Bet you arent expecting me. Im John Lennon.”
“What?” the face above him says.
“You know. John Lennon. The Beatles.”
Professor Hermann—the name attached to the face which loomed over him as he
drifted up, up from the Long Sleep—is vague about the precise date. It is either 2108
or 2180. Hermann makes a little joke about inversion of positional notation; it has
something to do with nondenumerable set theory, which is all the rage. The ceiling
glows with a smooth green phosphorescence and Fielding lies there letting them prick
him with needles, unwrap his organiform nutrient webbing, poke and adjust and
massage as he listens to a hollow pock-pocketa . He knows this is the crucial moment,
he must hit them with it now.
“Im glad it worked,” Fielding says with a Liverpool accent. He has got it just right,
the rising pitch at the end and the nasal tones.
“No doubt there is an error in our log,” Hermann says pedantically. “You are listed
as Henry Fielding.”
Fielding smiles. “Ah, thats the ruse, you see.”
Hermann blinks owlishly. “Deceiving Immortality Incorporated is—”
“I was fleeing political persecution, ydig. Coming out for the workers and all.
Writing songs about persecution and pollution and the working-class hero. Snarky
stuff. So when the jackboot skinheads came in I decided to check out.”
Fielding slips easily into the story he has memorized, all plotted and placed with
major characters and minor characters and bits of incident, all of it s
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