The Memory Seller

Overview:

• Title: The Memory Seller
• Author: T. Jackson King
• Year: 1994
• Type: Short Fiction
• Series: The Forty-Seventh Florescence

Synopsis:

The Memoray Seller's shop in town has drawn young Jamie Whitlock, a third generation human settler on the distant agricultural planet of Attica, circuling the star 30 Hercules. He is drawn to the forbidden--memories of ancient, far distant Earth, the racial home he has never visited. Memory Seller Leonidas Euchidas Pantites greets him, warns him of the memory danger, then lowers the memorynet machine. And young Jamie, who thought he was newly in love, lives again the horror, the radiance, the tatalizing draw of Earth and the stars. As a crowd of fellow citizens attacks the Memory Seller's shop, Jamie escapes--but only to face a choice of family, love, and destiny. Whatever he chooses, the memories will be his.

Notes:

Set in the Forty-Seventh Florescence series universe of T. Jackson King's hard SF novel RETREAD SHOP (1988, Warner Questar).

Editions/Publications:

• 1994. Expanse, Winter 1994 (1994, Steven E. Fick Steven E. Fick, ID: ISSN 1070-6844, $4.95, 84 pages, bedsheet, Magazine)

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