Stick this free in the floor or wherever you can, so it stands up, and hang all sorts of stuff on its branches depending on what you’ve got. “chop down a tree in the forest, not too big but full, so that it will fit in your izbas but if you want you can put it in the yard. Some of those who were alive before the blast are, for some unexplained reason, still alive and unaging, still quoting the books and poems of a lost culture and largely ignored by their descendants, who call them “oldeners.”įrom a simple scribe who thinks the story of the Gingerbread Man is “sad” and that touching a pre-apocalyptic book will cause him to fall ill with radiation sickness, Benedikt becomes, after his marriage to a local girl, an undiscerning but voracious reader and a government official in charge of seizing pre-apocalyptic books.Īs a scribe, Benedikt copies down the occasional governmental decree, sent from the “Greatest Murza,” like about the “Holiday of New Year” which should be celebrated “the First of March” and “like this:”
Those who have too many mutations are called “Degenerators” and used to pull the sleighs of high-ranking government workers. The Slynx starts out as the story and imaginings of a none-too-bright protagonist named Benedikt, living near where Moscow used to be, two hundred years after “the Blast.” He is a government employee who scrapes by as a scribe for children’s books in the winter and a turnip farmer in the summer.īenedikt has no idea what caused “the Blast,” but says that “people were playing around and played too hard with someone’s arms.” He and many of his fellow post-apocalyptic citizens have a “Consequence” like a tail, claws, or horns.
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