From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 19:28:16 MST
At 12:48 PM 28/12/00 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>Given a super duper
>general assembler kit (probably built into your body)
>We could see "people" (in the broadest sense) spread out amongst the stars
>in what looks very much like nomadic hunter-gatherers spreading across new
>continents.
Pretty much like the symbionts in John Varley's `Eight Worlds' sequence.
Humans cocooned by an otherwise mindless space-dwelling critter, floating
in the rings of Saturn with vast wings spread to the light, singing
wonderful radio music...
Damien Broderick
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