Here’s a story that predates the entire Twinmaker experiment, set far in the future of the novels. Enjoy! On a far-flung moonlet, a rare device flickered into life. Hradek Zanshin, High Ethnarch of the Ataman Theocracy, stepped out of the reconstruction chamber and took a deep breath. To look at, he wasn’t much: shortish; dark […]
Not to be confused with this fly. Drugs and d-mat are a match made in heaven. We’ve all heard the stories: there are farmers who grow mutated crops in search of the next super-high, which they’ll pattern and distribute to anyone who has the right contacts. There are molecular mechanics who change substances one particle […]
Thanks to the brilliant person who, at an appearance at Stefen’s Books, gave me the idea for this story. The girl was possessed, her father said. A demon had got into her when she jumped by d-mat to New York in order to see an unsanctioned boy. (Who was himself in the grip of the […]
No one talks about Anima Mutri anymore. Have you heard of her? No, I didn’t think so. She used to be an activist for social equality– women’s rights, anti-prejudice, that kind of thing. A friend of mine in the Abstainer movement met her once. Activists generally stick together, whether they’re boycotting d-mat or dumping shit […]