Limits
“The sky was a peculiar blue, but blue. It was unbreathable still, but there was oxygen, ten percent and growing. One of the biological factories showed against white cloudscape, to nice effect, in view of a floating camera. The camera showed a tremendous rippling balloon in the shape of an inverted teardrop, blowing green bubbles from its tip. Hilary Gage watched the view with a sense of pride.Not that he would want to visit Harvest, ever. Multicolored slimes infected shallow tidal pools near t...he poles. Green sticky stuff floated in the primordial atmosphere. If it drifted too low it burned to ash. The planet was slimy. Changes were exceedingly slow. Mistakes took years to demonstrate themselves and decades to eradicate.Hilary Gage preferred the outer moon.One day this planet would be a world. Even then, Hilary Gage would not join the colonists. Hilary Gage was a computer program. Gage would never have volunteered for the Harvest Project unless the alternative was death.Death by old age.He was aware, rumor-fashion, that other worlds were leery of advanced computers.MoreLess
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