This Other Eden
“ Plastic and Nathan were not playing tennis in the conventional sense. Big though Plastic’s ‘Sphere was, it did not actually contain a court. It did not need to. It was equipped with state-of-the-art games suits which offered a tennis court, a baseball diamond, in fact, any pitch the player desired. The suits were Virtual Reality body stockings which the player wore whilst suspended, weightless, inside a vacuum tank. One could run, kick and jump in them without going anywhere. You could play any sport, either against a great player of your choice, via computer or against a real person whose suit was linked to yours. Thus, Plastic and Nathan played two hard sets of tennis involving some pretty impressive serving and net-play, and yet all an outside observer would have seen was something akin to two frogmen squirming and writhing in a big fish-tank.
‘That’s the kind of leisure accessory that is going to make New Generation Eden absolutely irresistible,’ Plastic remarked over a glass of... fruit punch as they sat relaxing under the great geodesic dome on the edge of the desert, next to the rain forest.MoreLess
‘That’s the kind of leisure accessory that is going to make New Generation Eden absolutely irresistible,’ Plastic remarked over a glass of... fruit punch as they sat relaxing under the great geodesic dome on the edge of the desert, next to the rain forest.MoreLess
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