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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... tree, where all the kids from hypno-school could see you. How well adjusted.” “At least,” said Hergal, “when I get out of Jang I'll be able to make a little kid go to hypno-school, since I didn't manage to annihilate the last one ...
... trees of Ilex Park glowed and flashed under the pink sky. Long, black-green shadows were creeping down the slopes, and a little artificial ground mist— most artistic—was smoking about in the grottoes and groves. As I approached the west ...
... the carefully sculptured avenue that leads down to the west, the sun behind me. And out of the trees nipped Doval, Zirk's out-circle Jang friend, afire with enthusiasm and importance. |- -||... -: ~~|×s |×|-Nonae Nooae |---- .
... , and left her sleeping. The swan was firmly anchored to the bed, its beak stuffed three inches deep in a plate of swan-food. The noise of the crowd was impressive now, and as we emerged from the trees into the Clearing Zirk had elected.
Tanith Lee. emerged from the trees into the Clearing Zirk had elected for our duel, most of my fears were realized. The bulk of the onlookers were Jang. Glittering and giggling, shoving, pushing, and gulping their pills, an enchanting ...