MP 2 - The Hidden Family by Charles Stross

Author:Charles Stross [Stross, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy, Boston (Mass.), Women journalists, General, Merchants - Family relationships, Family-owned business enterprises, Science fiction
ISBN: 9780765352057
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-05-02T23:29:00+00:00

“Um, I think so.” He looked abstracted. “I, I don’t know any model artificers.

I’m sorry. But I’m sure you’ll find someone.”

“Oh I think I will, indeed I do.” She headed back to the office, leaving Roger wrestling a ten-kilogram lump of very high-grade rock wool onto his workbench.

The day passed in a blur. Miriam had rigged a travel transformer for her laptop, which she kept in a locked drawer in the office along with an inkjet printer and a small digitizer tablet. The CAD software was a pain to use with such a small screen, but far better than the huge draftsman’s board and ink pens in the far corner of the room. Between calls she lost herself in an extruded 3D model of a brake assembly— one of her own invention, crude but recognizable as the ancestor of late twentieth-century disk brakes. Another file awaited her attention—steel radial bands for reinforcing tires. The idea was sound, but she kept having to divert into her physics and engineering textbooks. Her calculus was rustier than she was willing to admit, and she was finding some of the work extremely hard.

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