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A very strange woman lives as a hermit deep inside the Great Ship. Her original family has forgotten her. She sleeps often and eats only when she must. Her only purpose both is grand and suffocating: She carries a multitude of entities inside her otherwise empty brain.
Yes, this was a small death. No more than an inconvenience if the person had schedules to keep. But Perri didn't have anywhere to be, and so this was also an opportunity. Choking wasn't possible since breath was just another habit and oxygen wasn't the only means to run the metabolism. Now and for another twenty days, his crystalline intellect would carefully sip at electrochemicals stored inside vaults and cubbies, and all that while the dead human would remain alert. True, a body that he rather liked was useless. But that flesh would recover, given any encouragement. Likewise, Perri never fell unconscious, never stopped counting the seconds, and all that while he was able to think about matters that needed concentration, including wondering about the bystander who had been watching him from above.
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred published stories and an assortment of novels. His novella, "A Billion Eves," won the Hugo Award in 2007. But Reed is certainly best known for his Great Ship stories.
Genre: Science Fiction
Yes, this was a small death. No more than an inconvenience if the person had schedules to keep. But Perri didn't have anywhere to be, and so this was also an opportunity. Choking wasn't possible since breath was just another habit and oxygen wasn't the only means to run the metabolism. Now and for another twenty days, his crystalline intellect would carefully sip at electrochemicals stored inside vaults and cubbies, and all that while the dead human would remain alert. True, a body that he rather liked was useless. But that flesh would recover, given any encouragement. Likewise, Perri never fell unconscious, never stopped counting the seconds, and all that while he was able to think about matters that needed concentration, including wondering about the bystander who had been watching him from above.
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred published stories and an assortment of novels. His novella, "A Billion Eves," won the Hugo Award in 2007. But Reed is certainly best known for his Great Ship stories.
Genre: Science Fiction
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