The Sunspacers Trilogy by George Zebrowski

Author:George Zebrowski [Zebrowski, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781585863037
Publisher: ereads.com
Published: 1995-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

5

Lissa awoke early and lay in bed looking out at the mountains. The wind, she knew, was frigid out there, and it blew constantly. She stretched, feeling fresh and encouraged, and wondered how she could have felt down at all last night. Everything was still waiting to be accomplished, and there would be enough time to work around every failure, every disappointment.

She thought of her parents. Morey would be getting ready for his Monday morning physics class. Sharon would already be at the hospital, or she might even have been there all night. They were thinking of her, Lissa felt sure.

As she gazed out at the piece of blue sky visible through her window, she thought of where she had been born—in a small town on the inside of a spinning hollow ball located in the Moon’s Orbit. The only other worlds she had known were the other space colonies at L-5 and L-4 and the growing Lunar settlements. She had thought more about the colonies on Mars, the asteroid hollow orbiting Mercury, the habitats in Saturn’s rings, than of Earth. Yet here she was on the home world, where everyone had come from originally. For a moment it seemed a backward thing to do, to come here, the place of countless old and dead civilizations, where for thousands of years people had warred and died; even in the last century millions had died in world wars. There was no place on the planet where people had not died, where human bones did not lie buried in the ground. Suddenly she felt the age of the Earth, and she startled herself with the fact that no one hadbuilt the Earth; it had condensed out of interstellar materials in orbit around the youthful sun, and after billions of years humanity had evolved from the thin layer of bio-matter that had formed in the outer crust. Some crust, she thought, sitting up and looking at the mountains. But even though the Earth had not been constructed especially for human beings, she realized with curiosity, it had become livable because human life had evolved by adapting to the planet’s environment. The habitats she knew had only taken that environment of earth, air, and water out into space.

She got up finally and sat down at her desk. Her screen tilted up, and she entered her palm print. A greeting appeared: GOOD MORNING. I AM YOUR PERSONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. MY NAME IS AUGIE. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS ME—WITH WORD DISPLAY OR WITH A VOICE? WOULD YOU ALSO PREFER TO GIVE ME ANOTHER NAME?

Lissa typed:

WORD DISPLAY WILL DO JUST FINE FOR NOW. AUGIE IS A GOOD NAME.

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