Asimov's Science Fiction - December 2016 by Penny Publications

Author:Penny Publications
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penny Publications
Published: 2016-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

The birds were chirping hello to another day when I left Ivan’s and weaved my way upstairs. I was debating whether to make some coffee or just drop into bed when I saw there was a message waiting for me on my screen. It was from Gwen, one of the people who works—or maybe a better term would be hangs out—as voluntary caretaker of the workshop where I get my sculptures scanned, enlarged, and 3-D printed as faux-bronze polymer.

HEY JAMES,

OUR ’BOT BUDDIES JUST DELIVERED A NEW PRINTER. THEY ALSO BUILT A WHOLE NEW WING TO THE BUILDING HERE TO HOLD IT, BECAUSE THIS SUCKER IS BIG. LIKE, PRINTING OUT SCULPTURES 10 METERS TALL AND 5X5 METERS FOOTPRINT. NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS BEAST, OF COURSE, IT JUST APPEARED OVERNIGHT, THE WAY THINGS DO.

ALSO, SOME NEW EQUIPMENT AND SPEC FILES SHOWED UP AT THE SAME TIME. THEY’RE INSTRUCTIONS AND MATERIALS FOR ATTACHING BIG THINGS TO THE EXTERIOR WALLS OF BUILDINGS, EVEN GLASS-WALLED BUILDINGS LIKE THE HANCOCK TOWER.

SO THE OTHER FOLKS HERE WERE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS WONDERING WHAT’S UP WITH THIS AND WHAT WE CAN DO WITH IT, BUT NOT ME. MY THOUGHTS WENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR PIECE GECKOS, OF WHICH YOU SENT US SOME PICS OF YOUR CLAY ORIGINAL A FEW WEEKS BACK, ASKING IF WE HAD ANY IDEAS ABOUT WHERE YOU MIGHT DO AN INSTALLATION OF A LIFESIZE COPY. YOU MAYBE REMEMBER THAT I WROTE YOU BACK SAYING THAT I THOUGHT THIS WAS A REALLY GREAT PIECE, AND IT DESERVED AS BIG AND NOTEWORTHY AN INSTALLATION AS WE COULD MANAGE. WELL, HOW ABOUT A FIVE TIMES LIFE SIZE COPY, DUDE? YOU COULD PUT THOSE FIGURES TEN OR TWENTY STORIES UP ON THE SIDE OF THE HANCOCK TOWER! IS THAT AN AWESOME THOUGHT OR WHAT? WE ALL FIGURE THIS MUST BE EXACTLY WHAT THE AIS HAVE IN MIND. NOBODY ELSE AROUND HERE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT STICKING ANYTHING BIG ONTO THE OUTSIDE WALL OF A BUILDING, SO THIS DELIVERY HAS GOT TO BE THEIR WAY OF GIVING YOU THE GO-AHEAD TO DO THE BIGGESTAND COOLEST-ASS SCULPTURE INSTALLATION THIS TOWN HAS SEEN SINCE, WELL, FOREVER.

GET BACK TO US QUICK, DUDE, OR JUST SHOW UP WITH YOUR CLAY ORIGINAL. ALL OF US HERE ARE REALLY JAZZED ABOUT FIRING UP THIS BIG PRINTER AND MAKING THIS PROJECT HAPPEN.

YRS. ETC.,

GWEN

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