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"I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Subcutaneous Overlay | ||
| An implanted chip that provides a continuous drug experience for months. |
| She was named for moonlight—Aynur—and ever since she was a child, she had associated it with herself: cool and pale and of the night. It was like one of those subcutaneous underlays you could buy, flow it through your veins, and bliss out for months. One of those: A Walk in the Rain or Summer Evening. If she could figure out how to chiptune this subtle, rich feeling she sometimes sank into of being moonlight she could sell it for a fortune. |
| Technovelgy from The Mountain in the Sea,
by Ray Naylor. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022 Additional resources -
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