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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... thought it was Thinta wailing and making those long, white-hot, silver-wire runnels down my back. But it wasn't Thinta, it was three of Thinta's cats. “No thanks, Thinta,” I said. “We can marry for a unit, yes. But we'll go to the ...
... thoughts about Danor. Of course, she might be the disappointment of the vrek. Or she might have turned into a Hatta-horror, though it seemed unlikely. Poor frigid Danor. My reading up here had given me a few ideas. Looked at calmly ...
... thought it was the other, nicer little thing in red. “Yes, Thinta,” I said. “But are you sure?” Thinta persisted. “Because I've brought some nutrition pills with me in case.” Just then I saw Danor. It was quite easy to spot her—yes, her ...
... thought you were my child. He's predominantly male, and his last body did look very like yours. But how stupid of me. What must you think?' I said I thought it was quite natural, and I didn't mind, and was he the guardian? He gave a ...
... thought I was restful, because we were both very silent and sad-eyed. Presently he said he was called Kam, and would I care for a glass of opal wine or some Joyousness or something. Just then I think he wanted to make believe I was his ...