Vernor Vinge by True Names

Author:True Names
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-07T21:14:54+00:00

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the human brain preprocess their input. More seconds passed, but now with

a sense of time, as he struggled to distribute his very consciousness through the System.

Then it was over, and he had control once more. But things would never be the same: the human that had been Mr. Slippery was an insect

wandering in the cathedral his mind had become. There simply was more

there than before. No sparrow could fall without his knowledge, via air traffic control; no check could be cashed without his noticing over the bank communication net. More than three hundred mil- lion lives swept before what his senses had become.

Around and through him, he felt the other occu- pant—Erythrina, now

equally grown. They looked at each other for an unending fraction of a second, their communication more kinesthetic than verbal. Finally she smiled, the old smile now deep with meanings she could never image before.

“Pity the poor Mail- man now!”

Again they searched, but now it was through all the civil data bases, a search that could only be dreamed of by mortals. The signs were

there, a near invisible system of manipulations hidden among more routine

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