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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... asked Hergal casually. I, too, had an armament. “With you, I saw her,” said Hergal, “but don't reckon on making Danor. Danor cracked up when you cracked up, and got out of BEE to get away from you. That's why this is the first time ...
... asked me. “You look so washedout. (Danor? No, at least, we don't know.) Did you remember to have a meal injection?” Nobody knew what body Danor was going to be in. Zirk was having a bet with a Jang male from some other circle that it ...
... asked Kam if I couldn't have it, and he said yes and arranged it.” “How splendid of Kam,” I said. “Kam was an Older Person,” said Danor. She folded her hands in her lap on top of the swan. Very serenely she said: “We lived together for ...
... asked. “Oh, no,” said Danor. The swan was apparently a total failure, which was why she loved it. We had said no more about Kam. At least, I had asked nothing and Danor had volunteered no more. But now, reflectively, she began to talk ...
... asked each other what “swords” were. Some of the Jang knew from their Dream Room fantasies and the Adventure Palace. “Been practicing?” I inquired. “Do you accept swords?” he grated. “If it will shut you up.” Zirk looked about at the ...