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RESURRECTION by A. E. van Vogt THE GREAT ship poised a quarter of a mile above one of the cities. Below was a cosmic desolation. As he floated down in his energy bubble, Enash saw that the buildings were crumbling with age. No signs of war damage! The bodiless voice touched his ears momentarily. Enash turned it out. On the ground he collapsed his bubble. He found himself in a walled enclosure overgrown with weeds. Several skeletons lay in the tail grass beside the rakish building. They were of long, two-legged, two-armed beings with skulls in each case mounted at the end of a thin spine. The skele- tons, all of adults, seemed in excellent preservation, but when he bent down and touched one, a whole section of it crum- bled into a fine powder. As he straightened, he saw that Yoal was floating down nearby. Enash waited until the his- torian had stepped out of his bubble, then he said: Do you think we ought to use our method of reviving the long dead? Yoal was thoughtful. I have been asking questions of the various people who have landed, and there is something wrong here. This planet has no surviving life, not even in- sect life. Well have to find out what happened before we risk any colonization. Enash said nothing. A soft wind was blowing. It rustled through a clump of trees nearby. He motioned towards the trees. Yoal nodded and said, Yes, the plant life }ias not been harmed, but plants after all are not affected in the same way as the active life forms. There was an interruption. A voice spoke from Yoals re- ceiver: A museum has been found at approximately the centre of the city. A red light has been fixed on the roof. Enash said, Ill go with you, Yoal. There might be skeletons of animals and of the intelligent being in various stages of his evolution. You didnt answer my question. Are you going to revive these things? Yoal said slowly, I intend to discuss