Outland Exile: Book One of Old Men and Infidels

by W. Clark Boutwell

  7 Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman,” Collected Poems (1947).

  8 “Due in part to the unequal campaign waged against them … many Christian groups atrophied, leaving their buildings to litter the landscape with archaic or outrageous architecture both great and small. After … the remaining believers consolidated, organizing around local congregations and the congregations around regional associations … Few will ignore a directive from the association. Any dispute, sacred or profane, can be referred to the local congregation or association.” Kim Eun Sung, History of the Church Resurgent (St Louis: St. Louis University Press, 2066), 7.

  9 “Ageplay is a project that may have the greatest effect on health since the discovery of vaccines. A couple who have been marooned in a summer cabin since the Scorching have finally returned to civilization, bringing with them their four children.

  At the time of the invasion, Saint Louis native Dr. Alyssa Elizabeth Browne, MD, PhD, and her husband, Dr. Alexander Rodney Johnstone, MD, a native of Dumfries, Scotland, escaped to what they hoped would be a safe refuge in eastern Kentucky. When the Unity invaded, they became isolated. To protect the only functional specimen of the Ageplay agent, they administered it to their youngest son.

  The Ageplay treatment may increase vigorous lifespan to 170 years … For the time being their son provides the only source of the agent.” Bella Trelagen, “Promising New Treatment,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 22, 2063, Sunday supplement, 3.

  10 A traditional tattoo design borrowed from the Cherokee after the Meltdown.