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"A Fragile Dream"
Date: 2006-02-09 09:56 pm (UTC)My first response to this story was one of profound envy: I, too, want to wake up in a post-Scarcity world where AIs are fellow people, death is optional rather than mandatory, and the challenges of life are mostly those we choose rather than those that are forced upon us.
I was wondering about the economics of Discovery, and how they compare to those of Pendor, or the other worlds of the Corridor. I don't think I've ever seen a story of yours mention IUs, or the economic system in which they're used.
It felt good to see Misuko & Linia again, and I recognized Ms. Mannheim right away. I was a bit surprised that she adjusted as well as she did to her circumstances... was that meant to be a function of her life of priviledge and power before, a matter of her personality, a consequence of the techniques used in her re-instantiation, or something else?
I like her quick application of 20th-century economic concepts to her current situation... that was a nice touch, in that it told us "She's going to be all right", and reinforced the idea that, in a world with their level of technology, nothing stops a plain old unmodified 20th-century human from having a contribution to make. I liked that a lot.
I would have put these comments along with the story on your main server, but I didn't see a link with the story whereby I could make comments.