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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... told me—he then, I she—that he couldn't have love and like it. Danor jumping from a window in the floater clouds, and falling hundreds of feet into the city— pointless action, since the robots would be on him and have him removed to a ...
... told her. “Oh—” she said, as if she were going on to say something else, and then hesitated. But her eyes, those lavender eyes, were open as two doors on a sort of turmoil—alarm, pleasure, cowardice, memory. She'd gone right back to the ...
... told us, very kindly, that it was not one, not good for us, not healthy. They told Kam that he was ruining my life, so he made me go.” The swan began to sing in a high-pitched inappropriate voice: “I only want to have love with you, for ...
... the unit, but of course I didn't. And it wasn't just the old thing—the having—love thing—either. It made me realize. When I didn't bite, the two girls eventually flounced out. I told Kam I was predominantly female, and due for a.
Tanith Lee. told Kam I was predominantly female, and due for a change. He looked slightly taken aback. He looked something else, too —nervous, and not only that, somehow glad. I knew then, and I think he did. I went to Limbo that night ...