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Merry Gravmas [MultiFormat]
eBook by James P. Hogan
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Ancient roots of the future holiday season.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Minds, Machines, and Evolution, 1988
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2006
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [147 KB], eReader (PDB) [18 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [4 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [5 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [69 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [74 KB], hiebook (KML) [69 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [30 KB], iSilo (PDB) [3 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [5 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [32 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [10 KB]
Words: 891
Reading time: 2-3 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"Is that you, Li?"
Cheng Xiang called, looking up from the notescreen propped against his knee. He had been amusing himself with a few tensor integrals to clear his mind before taking his morning coffee. The sounds of movement came again from upstairs. Moments later, his ten-year-old son appeared, floating down the staircase on an anti-g disk.
"Good morning, father."
"Merry Gravmas."
"And to you." Li hopped off the disk and stood admiring the decorations that the family robot had put up overnight. There were paper chains hanging in hyperbolic catenary curves and sinusoids, Gaussian distribution bells, and pendulums wreathed in logarithmic spirals. In the corner opposite the total-sensory cartridge player, there stood a miniature apple tree with binary stars on top and a heap of gaily wrapped gifts around its base. Its branches were adorned with colored masses of various Platonic shapes, a string of pulsing plasma glows, and striped candies shaped like integral signs. "It looks nice," Li said, eyeing the presents. "I wonder what Santa Roid has brought this year."
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