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Amber jolts into wakefulness, as if from a nightmare. She sits bolt award in
upright, a thin sheet falling from her chest; air circulating around her 2002.
back chills her rapidly, cold sweat evaporating. She mutters aloud, His
unable to subvocalize, "where am I? oh. A bedroom. How did I get latest
here?" mumble. "Oh, I see." Her eyes widen in horror. It? s not a book,
dream. . . . Singulari
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"Greetings, human Amber," says a ghost-voice that seems to come
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from nowhere: "I see you are awake. Would you like anything?"
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Amber rubs her eyes tiredly. Leaning against the bedstead, she
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glances around cautiously. She takes in a bedside mirror, her
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reflection in it: a young woman, gaunt in the manner of those whose
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genome bears the p53 calorie-restriction hack, she has disheveled
novel,
blonde hair and dark eyes. She could pass for a dancer or a soldier;
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not, perhaps, a queen. "What? s going on? Where am I? Who are
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you, and what am I doing in your head?"
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Her eyes narrow. Analytical intellect comes to the fore as she takes will be
stock of her surroundings. "The router," she mutters. Structures of publishe
strange matter in orbit around a brown dwarf, scant light years from d by
Earth. "How long ago did we come through?" Glancing round, she Golden
sees a room walled in slabs of close-fitting stone. A window bay is Gryphon
recessed into them, after the style of crusader castles many centuries in the
in the past, but there? s no glass in it? just a blank white screen. The fall.
only furniture in the room, besides a Persian carpet on the cold
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flagstones, is the bed she sits upon. That, and the idiot gun that
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hovers just beneath the ceiling. She? s reminded of a scene from an
old movie, Kubrick? s enigma; this whole set-up has got to be
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deliberate, and it isn? t funny. enjoyed
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"I? m waiting," she announces, and leans back against the
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