Ventus by Karl Schroeder

Author's note:

The edition of Ventus that you are looking at is my own, and is not a product of Tor Books. As such, only I am responsible for the inevitable typos and other differences between this and the published text. This eBook version is free and cannot be sold.

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ISBN 0-812-57635-7.

Karl Schroeder

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Sept. 1, 2007

...Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? — A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

— from The Successor to Science, by Marjorie Cadille, March, 2076