AIs by Gardner Dozois

Author:Gardner Dozois
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

* * *

She was flying.

She felt light, insubstantial, like a child in the arms of her father.

Looking back, she could see the Earth, heavy and massive and unmoving, at the center of everything, a ball of water fouled over on itself.

Rising ever faster, she passed through a layer of glassy light, like an airliner climbing through clouds. She saw how the layer of light folded over the planet, shimmering like an immense soap bubble. Embedded in the membrane she could see a rocky ball, like a lumpy cloud, below them and receding.

It was the Moon.

Philmus woke, gasping, scared.

Another Dante dream.

. . . But was it just a dream? Or was it a glimpse of the thoughts of the deep chemical mind that—perhaps—shared her body?

She sat up in bed and reached for her tranqsat earpiece. It had been, she thought, one hell of a case.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.