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Tower of Glass

by Robert Silverberg · 1970

Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose… more

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He was only now outgrowing his playboy phase, groping his way out of frivolity the way others might grope their way out of atheism.
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It's a cultural matter. They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom... of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them. Saying, you want us to be filth, we'll live in filth too. Reveling in it. Wallowing in it. If we're not people, we don't have to be tidy....
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[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.
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He was looking for a vehicle of purpose, for a vessel to contain his formless ambitions and abilities.
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The tower's got to be big, is all! We want to send a message fast, we got to shout loud and clear. Okay?

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Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But, Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger knows no bounds...and it threatens much more than the tower. "...a multi-levelled work of high adventure, considerable tension and social consciousness."--Harlan Ellison.

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1970
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