Sf in the City Anthology
“ “I’m only going to ask you this once, so please pay attention. Which hand’s pinky do you value less?”
Jon Desai could feel his feet sweating into his protocell shoes. On the other side of the traditional kotatsu[1], a man named Iwao Mizushima – a thin but strong individual – ran his thumb over the blade of a laguiole knife, evaluating its bite. Tradition mattered to Iwao above all else, but such a sensibility had gone all but extinct. He professed to be of a nat...ionality in a world without nations, so the geographic point of origin of his favored cutting instrument no longer mattered either.
Only Iwao knew that his weapon originated from a tradition that began in a locale once called France, a land from a bygone era – the age before The City.
“I told you I’d get the DUs (data units) by the end of the month, if the data harvest came through,”MoreLess
Jon Desai could feel his feet sweating into his protocell shoes. On the other side of the traditional kotatsu[1], a man named Iwao Mizushima – a thin but strong individual – ran his thumb over the blade of a laguiole knife, evaluating its bite. Tradition mattered to Iwao above all else, but such a sensibility had gone all but extinct. He professed to be of a nat...ionality in a world without nations, so the geographic point of origin of his favored cutting instrument no longer mattered either.
Only Iwao knew that his weapon originated from a tradition that began in a locale once called France, a land from a bygone era – the age before The City.
“I told you I’d get the DUs (data units) by the end of the month, if the data harvest came through,”MoreLess
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