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In the future, a human without empathy can be legally separated from the rest of humanity. But he retains the right to read whatever he wants, speak to any agreeable soul, and never want for food or for shelter. And if he is a very clever man, he can accomplish amazing things with wise, convincing words.
"I have embarrassed her. A pretty enough woman, soft and small and sensitive and warm, she shrinks before me. This species of human being finds life and its pressures to be a great burden. I know her well; I have studied her peculiar ways. Her occasional success always brings a stab of self-inflicted guilt. Her world is full of endless injustices and casual miseries. In response to the suffering, she wears only simple clothes derived from recycled plastics and other nonmortal sources. She embraces any ideology that promises to put things right. Because there is such a thing as right, just as some things are definitely wrong. The green copper ring on her left hand shows that she is a bride of Gaia. And at this moment, staring at me, she feels pity. Or more precisely, she pities what she envisions to be my awful life."
Robert Reed is the author of quite a few science fiction stories. "She Sees My Monsters Now" won the Reader's Choice Award from Asimov's Science Fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction
"I have embarrassed her. A pretty enough woman, soft and small and sensitive and warm, she shrinks before me. This species of human being finds life and its pressures to be a great burden. I know her well; I have studied her peculiar ways. Her occasional success always brings a stab of self-inflicted guilt. Her world is full of endless injustices and casual miseries. In response to the suffering, she wears only simple clothes derived from recycled plastics and other nonmortal sources. She embraces any ideology that promises to put things right. Because there is such a thing as right, just as some things are definitely wrong. The green copper ring on her left hand shows that she is a bride of Gaia. And at this moment, staring at me, she feels pity. Or more precisely, she pities what she envisions to be my awful life."
Robert Reed is the author of quite a few science fiction stories. "She Sees My Monsters Now" won the Reader's Choice Award from Asimov's Science Fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction
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