"psychohistorical crisis"

[sergebroom]

"You and your starry-eyed astrological predictions. Son."

Later Eron's lover Otaria found them, brought in tow by Scogil's Petunia. "Is he all right?" Otaria asked.

"He's asleep."

Osa-Scogil felt very peculiar about having a wife and a Frightfulperson. And a daughter standing behind him with her arms wrapped affectionately around his neck. And an Admiral's head in his lap who was also a madman and a father. "Life isn't very predictable," he said.

"I know," replied the Mermaid of the Calmer Sea.

(Thus ends Donald Kingsbury's novel Psychohistorical Crisis, a homage to Isaac Asimov's Foundation.)