| Author: | J. Timothy Bagwell | ISBN: | 9781310396977 |
| Publisher: | Harp Seal Press | Publication: | June 14, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | J. Timothy Bagwell |
| ISBN: | 9781310396977 |
| Publisher: | Harp Seal Press |
| Publication: | June 14, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Metal Snow collects three science-fiction novelettes: Tangible Light (first published in print form in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact), The Oneiric Telefactor (first published in print form in Leading Edge), and Gently Down the Stream (new and never before published). In a different way each story considers what makes us human by showing someone crossing the traditional boundaries of humanity. In Tangible Light, a young man must find out who he is from biographical information about the thousands of people with his exact genetic make-up who have lived before him. The Oneiric Telefactor concerns a man who operates a synthetic body on Venus while sleeping in a lucid dream-state on Earth—except that his body is not on Earth. In Gently Down the Stream, a drug that allows people to control the content and subjective length of their dreams creates the worst addiction-related crime wave in U.S. history. More than five million "zoners" now live their lives almost entirely in a utopian dream, emerging only long enough to get more drug—and doing whatever it takes to get it. To combat this trend, a creative penal system comes up with the idea of curing addicts by replacing their dream worlds with nightmares from which they will be only too glad to awaken.
Metal Snow collects three science-fiction novelettes: Tangible Light (first published in print form in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact), The Oneiric Telefactor (first published in print form in Leading Edge), and Gently Down the Stream (new and never before published). In a different way each story considers what makes us human by showing someone crossing the traditional boundaries of humanity. In Tangible Light, a young man must find out who he is from biographical information about the thousands of people with his exact genetic make-up who have lived before him. The Oneiric Telefactor concerns a man who operates a synthetic body on Venus while sleeping in a lucid dream-state on Earth—except that his body is not on Earth. In Gently Down the Stream, a drug that allows people to control the content and subjective length of their dreams creates the worst addiction-related crime wave in U.S. history. More than five million "zoners" now live their lives almost entirely in a utopian dream, emerging only long enough to get more drug—and doing whatever it takes to get it. To combat this trend, a creative penal system comes up with the idea of curing addicts by replacing their dream worlds with nightmares from which they will be only too glad to awaken.
