Gold
The Final Science Fiction Collection
Excerpt
Gold
Jonas Willard looked from side to side and tapped his
baton on the stand before him.
He said,"Understood now? This is just a practice scene,
designed to find out if we know what we're doing. We've
gone through this enough times so that I expect a professional performance now. Get ready. All of you get ready."
He looked again from side to side. There was a person at
each of the voice-recorders, and there were three others
working the image projection. A seventh was for the music
and an eighth for the all-important background. Others
waited to one side for their turn.
Willard said, "All right now. Remember this old man has
spent his entire adult life as a tyrant. He is accustomed to
having everyone jump at his slightest word, to having everyone tremble at his frown. That is all gone now but he
doesn't know it. He faces his daughter whom he thinks of
only as a bent-headed obsequious girl who will do anything
he says,and he cannot believe that it is an imperious queen
that he now faces. So let's have the King."
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