The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2015)
“The fact of my name does not mean that I am an ancient male Roman. I am not, any more than my associate, Thor Hammerhurler, is an old Scandinavian god. Actually, like Thor, I am not a man of any kind, since in essence I am nothing more than a simple computer drudge. (I used the term “simple.” I don’t mean really simple.) I was generated merely to be one among the ten-to-the-tenth computer intelligences that the human persons and the Heechee created to do odd jobs for them, when those two races built the Wheel some centuries ago. Which Wheel was constructed for the purpose of keeping track of that extragalactic nest of nonmaterial entities which are collectively known as the Assassins, the Foe or, more recently, the Kugelblitz. (I don’t need to say any more about them now, as I will say enough later on.) Why, then, am I called Marc Antony? The reason—I do not say it is a good reason—has nothing to do with the real Antony’s status as sexual partner of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.
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