DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)Four-BEE was an Utopian city. If you didn't mind being taken care of all your long long life, having a wild time as a “jang" teenager, able to do anything you wanted from killing yourself innumerable times, changing bodies, changing sex, and raising perpetual hell, it could be heaven. But for one inhabitant there was always something askew. He/she had tried everything and yet the taste always soured. And then he/she succeeded in committing the one illegal act—and was thrown out of heaven forever. But forever is not a term any native of that robotic utopia understood. And so he/she challenged the rules, declared independence, and set out to prove that a human was still smarter than the cleverest and most protective robot... You don’t need to have read Tanith Lee's DON’T BITE THE SUN, which set the original scene, to find DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE of the same high merit that distinguished this author’s THE BIRTHGRAVE. |
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... garden by the pool under the huge artificial stars of Four BEE—Danor, the swan, and I. “Can it swim at all?” I asked. “Oh, no,” said Danor. The swan was apparently a total failure, which was why she loved it. We had said no more about ...
... Gardens—you know the place in BAA where they have special weather effects, thunderstorms and snow and everything. I was with a crowd watching an avalanche—they only lay it on twice a unit and it was rather impressive. Then this male ...
... garden the swan, having snapped its leash, was plodding about and sneezing like a vivacious klaxon. Though it was the pop-pop of the porch signal which had waked me. I switched on the signal image. There stood a three-dimensional.
... gardens. Imported real birds from BOO ignore dome-dawn with lofty disdain, and, having witnessed an authentic desert sunrise or two, I don't blame them. The jade leaves of the jade-trees of Ilex Park glowed and flashed under the pink ...
... garden. For some reason, or perhaps it was obvious, I guessed they were talking about me, so I sneaked toward the door and leaned there. It was a strange sight, an azure angel in conversation with a red balloon, and, midway between them ...