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Between the Winds [MultiFormat]
eBook by George Zebrowski
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Eighteen thousand years after the mobiles had left Earth, the first to return finds a deserted planet where humanity exists in thousands of shining blue globes ... each one a world of living feeling people who have existed in virtual dreams for so long that they accept them as the real world.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Amazing Stories, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2000
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [76 KB], eReader (PDB) [30 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [16 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [38 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [69 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [45 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [46 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [28 KB]
Words: 4895
Reading time: 13-19 min.
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"There was nothing in the technical survey," Gorrance said. "it seems they moved inside permanently, abandoning their bodies." Gibby was studying the panels, pressing control surfaces and anxiously waiting to see if any of the tank monitors lit up, realizing that there would be stored physical bodies only if anyone wanted to come out. These people might have left a way out only at first, and had then decided to go inside permanently. As the three tanks began flickering, Gibby looked around the chamber, feeling almost as if a virtual caretaker might appear. A foolish notion; these systems had certainly been designed to maintain themselves. Kateb frowned. "The trouble with sub-creations," he said, "is that they can't escape the cosmology of the external world in which they are embedded. A sun may go nova and collapse into a black hole, a planet might be destroyed by collisions--virtuals are vulnerable and can't do anything to save themselves."
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