By Rob Swigart
Initially released as an interactive novel on computing device disk in 1986, Portal is the tale of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted venture upfront woke up from suspended animation. 100 years have handed; animals and crops thrive, towns stand intact. each man or woman in spite of the fact that has disappeared.
With the aid of a slowly-reviving computing device community, the astronaut starts to piece jointly the occasions of the final century. He learns of the kid prodigy Peter Devore, of an international orchestrated through beautiful new applied sciences, and of Peter's race opposed to time to liberate the secrets and techniques of the Portal.
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BEGIN LOGON.
I asked. SciTech offered some equations but I could make nothing of them. PRIORITY THREE MESSAGE Entry by: Ezekial Fortune, DNA#93675791/2478A INCOMING, LOG November 25, 2093 CHRISTCHURCH NODE 0954:21 LOCAL TIME Since the Migration began the net is swamped with rumors: Some kind of radiation is destroying all human life; Elpie-5-4 Node suggested another war had started in Antarctica, but someone in Nairobi said they were just extrapolating from the old assault on Erebus. Why doesn't the Council do something?
Meanwhile we suggest you contact HOMER Artificial Intelligence for narrative reconstruction. " The figure vanished again. The manual told me I should be able to enter doorways for information of the kinds of data contained inside: Military, History, Science and Technology, Genealogical, Life Support (provided by information from so-called Personal Monitors worn by every citizen), Medical, Psychological, Geographical, Central Processing and something called PsiLink, which gives data on Psychic Sciences and is proscribed — entry is forbidden.