"Lazarus Come Forth!"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1966
ID: 642
Publication history:
- 1966: Galaxy April 1966, Magazine
- 1967: To Open the Sky, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 222 pp.
- 1970: To Open the Sky, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02025-1, 222 pp.
- 1984: To Open the Sky, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24502-3, 222 pp.
- 1989: To Open the Sky, Sphere Mass market paperback, ISBN 0722178271, 208 pp.
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Comments:
Part four of To Open the Sky.
It is now 2152. The Vorsters pretty much control the Earth, the Harmonists have a good foothold on Venus, and the Martian colonists want as little as possible to do with either. Then a construction crew on Mars comes across what appears to be the tomb of David Lazarus, the follower of Vorst whose disagreement with the Founder (and subsequent martyrdom) led to the founding of the Harmonist splinter group. Will this discovery bring the two factions together, or create chaos in the Solar System? Or is there more going on than meets the eye?