Deception Well by Linda Nagata

Author:Linda Nagata [Nagata, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alien worlds, The Nanotech Succession, Science Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Space colonization
ISBN: 9780983110026
Goodreads: 10134539
Publisher: Mythic Island Press LLC
Published: 1997-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

IT SEEMED THAT SOME BIT OF TIME had been lost. Maybe only a second, maybe several. He found himself slack against her, a mean buzz in his head, his slick skin cooling in the shifting light while Alta’s chest labored for breath beneath his weight. Ord squatted beside them, one gold tentacle pressed against Lot’s neck, muttering some half-mechanical drivel: “No good, no good. Not allowed.”

Lot slapped the tentacle away. “Leave us alone.” He took his weight again, and kissed the cooling salt sweat of Alta’s neck.

Then he rolled to the side, sprawling utterly slack against the soft floor. He watched her breasts slowly rise and fall, imagining what it might be like to be an oxygen molecule drawn forcefully into her lungs, exposed to gas-exchange over the alveoli, helpless freight rammed through the arteries, O2 exchanged for CO2 in the capillaries, depleted blood moving back to the lungs, subsystem of human life. Every molecule of air in Silk must have been breathed millions of times. From Alta’s lungs, to his own, to the kids playing in the street outside, and from there around the city until everyone had shared the same breath.

And what then? How many times could one breath be made to go round and round?

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