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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... They'd seen me and liked me, apparently, and Kam had encouraged them. He came in, being jolly and maker-ish. He expected I'd want to get married to one of them for the unit, but of course I didn't. And it wasn't just the old thing—the ...
... they'd save me in the end; they always do. But for someone who flies to the medicinal-salvedispenser for a hangnail, the prospect was unpleasing. “Aren't you pale?” said Mirri. “Scared?” “Shut up,” said Hatta. “If you're his second, you ...
... they'd ejected their stupid little poison-sacs at me. Maybe, too, there was something of the old rage on me, the rage against our whole way of living, our mores and our superficial codes. It was quite warm by now, and I could just hear ...
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