{"product_id":"2940014010283","title":"EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN","description":"EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =1= Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without\u003cbr\u003e       question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =2= Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general\u003cbr\u003e       contrariness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =3= Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to\u003cbr\u003e       account for the phenomenon?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =4= How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that\u003cbr\u003e       he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =5= What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the\u003cbr\u003e       obscure prevalent?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =6= What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered\u003cbr\u003e       effect is really cause?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =7= What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates\u003cbr\u003e       unperceived in all other phases of science? What if there be only\u003cbr\u003e       one natural law manifesting itself, as yet, to us in many facets\u003cbr\u003e       because we cannot apperceive the whole, of which we have gained\u003cbr\u003e       only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope only at\u003cbr\u003e       the crudest level?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e =And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor?=\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne minute after the regular report call from the planet Eden was\u003cbr\u003eoverdue, the communications operator summoned his supervisor. His finger\u003cbr\u003ehesitated over the key reluctantly, then he gritted his teeth and\u003cbr\u003epressed it down. The supervisor came boiling out of his cubicle,\u003cbr\u003ehalf-running down the long aisle between the forty operators hunched\u003cbr\u003eover their panels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is it? What is it?\" he quarreled, even before he came to a stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eden's due. Overdue.\" The operator tried to make it laconic, but it\u003cbr\u003ecame out sullen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe supervisor rubbed his forehead with his knuckles and punched\u003cbr\u003eirritably at some buttons on an astrocalculator. An up-to-the-second\u003cbr\u003estar map lit up the big screen at the end of the room. He didn't expect\u003cbr\u003ethere to be any occlusions to interfere with the communications channel.\u003cbr\u003eThe astrophysicists didn't set up reporting schedules to include such\u003cbr\u003eblunders. But he had to check.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere weren't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe heaved a sigh of exasperation. Trouble always had to come on his\u003cbr\u003eshift, never anybody else's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lazy colonists probably neglecting to check in on time,\" he\u003cbr\u003erationalized cynically to the operator. He rubbed his long nose and\u003cbr\u003ehoped the operator would agree that's all it was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe operator looked skeptical instead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEden was still under the first five-year test. Five-year experimental\u003cbr\u003ecolonists were arrogant, they were zany, they were a lot of things, some\u003cbr\u003eunprintable, which qualified them for being test colonizers and nothing\u003cbr\u003eelse apparently. They were almost as much of a problem as the\u003cbr\u003eExtrapolators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut they weren't lazy. They didn't forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some fool ship captain has probably messed up communications by\u003cbr\u003einserting a jump band of his own.\" The supervisor hopefully tried out\u003cbr\u003eanother idea. Even to him it sounded weak. A jump band didn't last more\u003cbr\u003ethan an instant, and no ship captain would risk his license by using the\u003cbr\u003eE frequency, anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe looked hopefully down the long room at the bent heads of the other\u003cbr\u003eoperators at their panels. None was signaling an emergency to draw him\u003cbr\u003eaway from this; give him an excuse to leave in the hope the problem\u003cbr\u003ewould have solved itself by the time he could get back to it. He chewed\u003cbr\u003eon a knuckle and stared angrily at the operator who was sitting back,\u003cbr\u003erelaxed, looking at him, waiting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You sure you're tuned to the right frequency for Eden?\" the supervisor\u003cbr\u003easked irritably. \"You sure your equipment is working?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe operator pulled a wry mouth, shrugged, and didn't bother to answer\u003cbr\u003ewith more than a nod. He allowed a slight expression of contempt for\u003cbr\u003esupervisors who asked silly questions to show. He caught the\u003cbr\u003esurreptitious wink of the operator at the next panel, behind the\u003cbr\u003esupervisor's back. The disturbance was beginning to attract attention.\u003cbr\u003eIn response to the wink he pulled the dogged expression of the unjustly\u003cbr\u003enagged employee over his features.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, why don't you give Eden an alert, then!\" the supervisor muttered\u003cbr\u003esavagely. \"Blast them out of their seats. Make 'em get off their--their\u003cbr\u003epants out there!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe operator showed an expression which plainly said it was about time,\u003cbr\u003eand reached over to press down the emergency key. He held it down.\u003cbr\u003eEleven light-years away, if one had to depend upon impossibly slow\u003cbr\u003ethree-dimensional space time, a siren which could be heard for ten\u003cbr\u003emiles in Eden's atmosphere should be blaring.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172189913328,"sku":"2940014010283","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014010283_p0.jpg?v=1763598981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014010283","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}