The Millennium Man
By W. Joseph Wyatt

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Prologue

As it had done every day for a hundred years, the rising sun slipped through a tiny opening in the side of the mountain cave and illuminated the body of a dead man. The corpse had lain undisturbed for a century, except for the light that faintly found its way through the fissure each day.

Nothing beside the still body provided any clue as to its origins or how it had come to be there. He had died an old man, with long white hair, about seventy. His features were remarkably well preserved by the cave's unchanging temperature and humidity. Clad in rough garments suggestive of cultures ranging from fifteenth-century Europe to nineteenth-century America, the body lay on its back, arms folded across its chest.

A stone pedestal suggestive of ancient tribal ceremony supported the lifeless form. On the cave floor beside the pedestal lay a knapsack containing the old man's insignificant belongings. These included a book, a tin canteen whose contents had evaporated long ago, and a clock whose hands had ceased turning a day or two after the man had breathed his last breath.

Day after day, for decade upon decade, nothing about the scene had changed. But on this day in the early twenty-first century, something happened.

It was well past midday and the sun's light was rapidly declining inside the cavern. At that moment the dead man's eyes fluttered and slowly opened, and his lungs filled with an audible rush of air.

While multiple generations had been born, grown old and died, the body had lain in its repose on the stone slab. Now the old man took several more deep breaths and sat up, looking more ghostlike than human in the rapidly vanishing light of late afternoon in the cave.

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The Millennium Man is 196 pages.

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