I have just finished scanning Path Beyond the Stars by Emil Petaja and
will be uploading it in a few minutes. It is a space opera/time travel
story. It will have no hold on it and so anyone who gets to it first can
proofread it. When I upload my scans I do not usually announce it on
this list. I just put them up and anyone who comes along can proofread
them. The reason I am telling you about it this time is because I wanted
to share what a strange experience it was to prepare this book. This
book was published in 1969 and apparently I read it shortly thereafter.
But when I started scanning it I had no memory or awareness that I had
ever read it. I found out, though, after I started. It was not a feeling
of nostalgia. It was more an experience of constant deja-vu throughout
the entire book. With every page I read I remembered it. Yet, I never
remembered what was coming next. I would finish one page and have no
idea what was going to be on the next page, but when I got to the next
page I remembered it. The strangest thing of all was one particular
scene. It was a time travel scene that took place in ancient Babylon and
the Babylonian emperor was about to rape a slave girl who is rescued in
the nick of time. As I read that scene the environment in which I first
read it came back to me unbidden. I suddenly felt like I was back in the
high school study hall where I first read that scene and even the sounds
and ambience of the room came right back to me and it was like I was
reliving it. I even remembered glancing up and seeing one of my fellow
high school students smiling and handing another student what appeared
to be a note. Until I reread this book while scanning it I had
absolutely no memory of that. The whole thing was really weird.
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