Текст книги "Postsingular"

Автор книги: Rudy Rucker

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Fed up with Craigor's visits, Jil finally acceded to Ond's courtship. She and the kids abandoned the Merz Boat and began living with Ond. He was happier than he'd ever been.

Chu was glad for the company, although mostly he slept at Nektar's. Bixie made him a little shy. At Nektar's urging, Chu began teeping into the gray matter of his own brain, coaxing the tissues towards a healing of the congenital defect in his cingulate cortex. Bit by bit he grew more personable.

As for Jayjay and Thuy? They got hitched.

***

It was the end of the Digital Age and the beginning of something new. Society percolated like a river city settling down from a flood. People were pleased with the new order; they'd reclaimed their lives from the machines. Good-humoredly they implemented the necessary changes, working together, fixing one problem at a time.

Astronomers reported that our unrolling of the eighth dimension had spread no further than the gravity well of Earth. But, now that the scientists knew what to look for, they could spot other unfurled zones amid the nearby stars and galaxies.

Perhaps the neighbors would be visiting soon.

-The End-

Volume 2: Hylozoic will be out in 2008 or 2009.

For updates and a full volume of writing notes for Postsingular, check

www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular.

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