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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... floop Cunt. See also thalldrap. graks Balls. groshing Fabulous, marvelous. insumatt Unsurpassable. onk Mild ejaculation, e.g., “Bother.” Ooma Darling, honey. Ooma-kasma Extreme term of affection, e.g., “love TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.
... floop. tosky Neurotic. vixaxn A word never written in full in the previous section of the autobiography. Though spelled fully here, the meaning— though obviously still pretty bad—is also still obscure. zaradann Insane, nuts. Glossary. of.
... floop.” And sword clanged on sword, as they say. Sword also clanged on air and tree bole—Zirk's sword, that is. I'd temporarily forgotten how much more agile slight, poetic me was than this muscle-bound freak. Besides, I had the art of ...
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