Live Without a Net by Lou Anders

Author:Lou Anders
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ALIF LAM RA

He has planned his action for early afternoon, when network traffic is at its most intense: East Coast American markets closing and people checking e-mail before leaving work, business use on the West Coast peaking, and markets in the Pacific Rim heating up along with the business of the day in Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur. It will be 1900 Greenwich Mean Time.

He takes a disk from an envelope and watches the sunlight play across its shining surface. He has created this on a computer far from his home, at public terminals in Walled Lake and Eastpointe and Inkster and even Windsor, south across the river. All his reading, all his desire, all his sorrow and hope have gone into it. Somewhere in its rainbowed interior, the broken symmetry of the technical and the mystical is restored.

The disk rests on the lip of a slot in Marwan’s terminal. The tip of his right index finger exerts gentle pressure on the rim of the disk. There is no way to be certain that what he is planning will work. It may be that when he inserts the disk, he will wreak changes greater than he imagines.

What changes?

God: stop me if I am doing wrong.

He does not know which God he expects to hear his prayer. With a soft whir the disk disappears into the slot.

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