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81. The Cold Romance of Sleep: An IntroductionTHE COLD ROMANCE OF SLEEP: A Work in Progress As a rogue star hurtles toward and through our Solar System, our near-future world girds for possible destruction, hastily mobilizing to build crude starships to carry colonists to possible Earth-like destinations among the nearby stars. From our tormented Earth, ...
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82. VAGABOND MIND Working Papers - An IntroductionVAGABOND MIND: Working Papers An Introduction How does an inventor get started inventing? He or she comes into a problem to discover that none of the usual methods, tools, lessons, and advice works any more. This book collects a series of working papers generated as the inventor – the ...
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83. VAGABOND MIND: A VISUAL TOUR SampleVAGABOND MIND: A Visual Tour A Sample Keeping track is hard when writing. Some of the basic ideas become visible in the log notes, such as threading of multiple stories and inclusion of background sidebars. A lot of big novels have appendices and viewpoint switching in them. At the time ...
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84. VAGABOND MIND WORKING PAPERS SampleVAGABOND MIND: Working Papers A Sample from the Preface The papers here reveal some of the roots of the work and the resulting inventions. For a fuller, much-more-detailed, and lengthy account of the work, the book Vagabond Mind: A Chronicle of Invention tells the story. For a quick look at ...
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85. VAGABOND MIND:CHRONICLE SampleVAGABOND MIND: A Chronicle of Invention A Sample from the Introduction This book traces the trajectory of its author through an adventure in writing, software programming, patent preparation, and attempted marketing of his adventure’s products. It begins at a point following the rejection of the author’s first science fiction novel, ...
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86. VAGABOND MIND: An OverviewVAGABOND MIND: An Overview Did you ever wonder what goes on in the mind of an inventor as he or she tries to make something new? Hang on. The train is about to enter the funhouse. Welcome to a very special kind of madness. If it gets to be too ...
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87. Out of Plato's Cave: ExcursionsOUT OF PLATO’S CAVE: Excursions A Work in Progress The book “Out of Plato’s Cave” stimulated an impressive overgrowth of side explorations and studies. The book had already grown so large that these added pieces had to be turned into separate essays, which are collected here. Here is a ...
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88. TestPageIn Descending Road, Ferdinand tries to kill the pain. The Scene. Scene Download. In Descending Road, the inquisitive Jeddin looks for answers. The Scene. Scene Download. In Descending Road, young Andrew faces his desperate father. The Scene. Scene Download. In Descending Road, Arlen the magnate sees a business opportunity. The ...
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89. DR STST1 PILLARS OF TIMEPILLARS OF TIME I'm the first human to stand here. It beats facing the usual death by bureaucracy. I put my hand on the bark of the gigantic tree and look upward for light. Under my hand the bark's serrations nearly gash my skin. The dimness reveals little except shades ...
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90. DR ST4 SULIMAR GETS NEWSI left Galrana’s feedshop at midnight with the sweat running down me like salt rain. Now I had to clean up for De’Ann, my own lady, before she came in from her nursing hitch upcity. Up the screwstair five levels, off into Scratch Crevice and my cubby, and I slammed ...
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91. DR ST3 TO SCAR HER LOVERTO SCAR HER LOVER The wall section that holds me is a miracle of elastic steel: a membrane of such flexibility that I can actually step outward into the street and dance little steps, bending down to touch the stone streetfloor, straining against the wall’s pull. It is also a ...
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92. DR ST2 JOOVLIESJOOVLIES About fifty steps up the bend from the halfdroid’s street station, a hole in the bedrock wall marked the entrance to Rockswell Track from Teshill Slope. The opening had a molded-stone arch in a vine motif, topped by a blue-green steel sign sticking out into the Slope’s lamp-glare. The ...
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93. DR ST1 THE PLEATHE PLEA I stand there in the street as she comes up to me. No one else moves. Her leather bodysuit is scratched and tattered on one leg. “You didn’t tell me this place was out of business,” she said crisply. “I came all the way down here, saw the ...
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94. DR S6 MAYBE THERE WOULD BE A HOUSEMAYBE THERE WOULD BE A HOUSE Ezzar’s breath came with short ragged coughs of blood. She clutched at the frozen stems of a few rock-rooted bushes by the north sideroad, and hauled herself to her feet. Needled snow whipped at her face; she blinked and swiped angrily at the icy ...
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95. DR S5 VOICE IN THE BRAINVOICE IN THE BRAIN Marra opened her eyes wide and sat up. The morning sun shone red-orange in the window. Deen stood in the doorway, fully dressed, smiling, her natural dark golden color replacing the ashen smudginess of her long illness. “Good morning,” Deen said. “I’m better. A lot better. ...
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96. DR S4 THE GREEN OVOIDTHE GREEN OVOID Arlen, the head of ArCorp and chief supplier of andros and ores to the City, stood in his great chamber and stared, fascinated, at the sensi screen, taking in the awesome sight from the grassy surface above the City. An alien visitor had arrived; the sensi voiceover ...
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97. DR S2 JEDDIN GOES TO THE ARCHIVESJEDDIN GOES TO THE ARCHIVES Alone in a tiny cubby, Jeddin sat drained and naked on the floor pad, his eyes closed, hunting through the tangle of skin-memories, smells, and pleasure surges of the past hour, searching for the inner door in his brain. He needed to be elsewhere. All ...
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98. BW Night Bells SampleRESCUE I was put to work fixing roads. We all lived in barracks made out of old apartment houses on the east side of the city, the part where the breaking and burning hadn’t done so much bad. One day, the man who’d been next to me up at the ...
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99. BW Trizark SampleTO THE VOWS Nedrillo cringed. The eldest of the Cottonmouth gorgons, he had scraped together what he thought was appropriate by clan law for the dowry: thirty-one fingers of tellite. His son Grisbane, the groom, had thrown in four more of his own. Now this shame, this insult from Krellfard ...
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100. BW Pyro SampleTOMAS SEES NADIENNE I stop in at Zill’s, the cheap-food cockpit. I straddle a stool along with all the lurks and the hooks, munch on the burgs this place scorches to a nice dark brown, count the hagflies mating on the stone ceiling, watch the blues out in the understreet ...
