Omega, the Man

Here were the ingredients of creation. For thousands of years man had been able to create various forms of life. He had evolved many pulsing, squirming things. He had even made man-like apes possessing the instinct of obedience, and which he used for servants, and much of his animal food also had been created in this manner.

Besides, there was the mind-control appliance by whose aid man's mind might visit other worlds. This was done through the development of the subconscious and the discipline of the will.

Sending forth electromagnetic waves it massed and directed the atmospheric pressure, sending heat waves here, cold ones there, thus causing droughts and rainfall at will.

There was a great atomic-electric motor used in creating and controlling climate as long as there was any to control.

The cranial development was extraordinary, their bulging foreheads denoting great brain power.

Their abdominal regions were very small, but above them were enormous chests sheltering lungs of tremendous power, for thus nature had armored man against the rarefaction of the earth's atmosphere.

Their legs were slender and almost fleshless, because for many centuries man had ceased to walk.

These two humans—the sole survivors of all earth's children—were man and wife—Omega and Thalma.