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file:///C|/3278%20Sci-Fi%20and%20Fantasy%20E-books/Kage%20Baker%20-%20Lemuria%20Will%20Rise.txt ====================== Lemuria Will Rise! by Kage Baker ====================== Copyright (c)1998 by Kage Baker First published in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, May 1998 Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from F then you are in violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visit to purchase a legal copy. F offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks. Somewhere God has a celestial Polaroid of me, standing there in the Dunes with a painted clamshell in one hand and a sprig of _Oenothera hookeri _ssp. _sclatera_ in the other, staring heavenward with a look of stupefied amazement. When He needs a mood lightener, He takes a look at that picture and laughs like hell. It was 1860 and the Company had sent me to Pismo Beach. The place was not yet the vacation destination of Warner Brothers toons; the little town of cottages and motels wouldnt exist for another generation or two; but it did feature all the clams one could eat, and all the sand too. I wasnt there for the clams, though. If you stand on the beach at Pismo and look south, you can see twenty-odd miles of shore stretching away to Point Sal, endless lines of breakers foreshortened into little white scallops on blue water. The waves roll in on a wide pale beach toward a green line of cypress forest, rising on low sandhills to your left. Beyond them, and further south, rise the Dunes. You never saw anything so pure of line and color in your life, though the lines shift constantly and the color is an indefinable shade between ivory and pink, or possibly gold. Even on a grey day they glow with their own light, pulsing as cloud shadows f