Minerva: An Alicia Jones Novel 06 by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

“Dr. Taryn, what seems to be the trouble?”

I was mostly resigned to my new position in life. Things had gotten to the point where I could actually mostly concentrate on science, and my personal life. Most of the day to day administration was done by A.I. and as head administrator and leader of this station and world, most of my job involved being the complaint department. No wonder most governments had so much red tape, it was for leaders to avoid dealing with real problems.

I’d actually come to enjoy it a little bit, it broke up my day, and the complaints had mostly slowed to a trickle. As far as science went, I was still mostly focused on improving current technology and improving our understanding of subspace and how it interacted with this space.

Questions like, why did a pebble in our world emanate a specific radiative frequency in that other layer? And how exactly did that interdependence work. What kind of energy was it in that other subspace layer that was so inimical to normal matter and energy? Did matter here create some kind of multi-dimensional radiation or energy, or was it that energy that caused matter to exist in normal space?

Maybe once I understood that I could move on to the next level of subspace, or go in a completely unanticipated direction.

Regardless, I was pretty happy with life right now with Minerva, Bill, and even my job. Sure, complaints and the trouble getting our families here for the wedding were annoying, but not that serious in the grand scheme of things.

The issue with James was a bit more serious, and I had a meeting with Kristi in a few minutes for her to explain her findings about what he was up to. I’d just grabbed a coffee when Dr. Taryn, of Tressia, ambushed me in the hallway. He was a geneticist researcher and I believed he had a wife and three young children.

Dr. Taryn smiled, “Not a major problem as such. It’s about the androids.”

I frowned, “I’m afraid Dr. Taryn that they’re here to stay, at least until suitable humanoid workers can be found for the jobs.”

Dr. Taryn smiled wider, “I’m afraid you’ve jumped to conclusions Alicia, may I call you Alicia?”

I nodded and he said, “Then call me Taryn. You see my wife is one of the few that finds work rather Zen and relaxing, but she only works a very small part time shift a few times a week when I can watch the children. We don’t want the androids taken away, quite the opposite, we were hoping we could acquire one as a babysitter, so my wife can have some time away from her responsibilities to do something else and recharge?”

Well, wasn’t that interesting. Not a complaint at all, but a valid request. Surely the end of the world was nigh. I smiled a little sheepishly, I had jumped to conclusions, based on previous and repeated conversations, but still an assumption I probably shouldn’t have made.

“I think we can arrange that.

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