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Because he has no more idea what a river is than a road. When he finally tries to cross the river it does not occur to him to swim. This time he ignored the pain in his chest and walked on, straight through the liquid darkness that engulfed him. And, after a moment, as if realizing its defeat, the pain went The twisting pain came back as he away emerged finally into shallower water. The paroxysm ended. He climbed to his feet and stood staring at the dark, rushing stream. He turned away finally, determined about one thing.
A good rule of story construction, by the way, is to make the reader want to know before you tell him. The various consequences of your basic premise may be presented first, as a series of bewildering and astounding riddles. Your hero battles the unknown, until finally he is able to tie all the strands together, and find his triumphant way at last to the hidden premise. For another example of that, in a novelette called "The Equalizer," my premise was the philosophic idea that the prevailing form of government, in any historic period, depends 43 OF WORLDS BEYOND on the current state of military technology—or, more broadly that social institutions are functions of technical progress.
I wakened with a start, and thought: How was Renfrew taking it? I must have moved physically, for black- ness edged with pain closed over me. How long I lay in that agonized faint, I have no 60 COMPLICATION IN THE SCIENCE FICTION STORY means of knowing. My next awareness was of the thrusting of the engines that drove the spaceship. Slowly this time, consciousness came. I lay very quiet, feeling the weight of my years of sleep, determined to follow the routine prescribed so long ago by Pelham. I didn't want to faint again.