"The Colonel Returns to the Stars"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 2004
ID: 1532
Publication history:
- 2004: Between Worlds, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, ISBN 1582881081
Other resources:
[None on record]
Form: Short story
Year: 2004
ID: 1532
[None on record]
Comments:
The tale is set in a galactic Imperium that the eponymous Colonel has spent his long life attempting to defend from Chaos. Everything is as simple as ago: no computers steal our scenes, no aliens occupy stage front, the teleportation devices are demurely unhaunted by doubles or shadows or partials or ghoolies, the villas and cities and towns and hotels where the action concentrates are about as alien as Ohio. Nothing, in other words, has been allowed to change, except for the retrospective tone, as the Colonel has been brought back from retirement to save one more planet at the Core of the galaxy. — John Clute, from his review at Sci-Fi.com