Dr Zeta Hallsmith was a relatively ordinary looking woman; her dark hair
seemed permanently pulled back harshly and knotted at the nape of her neck
and she wore thick-rimmed glasses that accentuated her pointed face and thin
lips. She had never had the inclination for the finer comforts of other
women; her life was her work, which unfortunately left little …
Barbara is tall, about 5′ 7″, slender and light-boned, so that her 127 pounds
are not skinny. She wears her deep brown hair short and curly, and dresses for
business in tailored pantsuits, with just a touch of color in her accessories.
Although she appears to be in her early thirties, she will celebrate her
forty-second birthday this coming November.…
Some guests were already in the room. Jack sat on the phony log bench and adjusted his tie. A couple of robot park rangers stood inertly. They waited patiently for the showtime to arrive. Could a robot wait patiently? Jack had done this before. Camping was one of the cheaper recreational activities you could do […]
That there was anything unusual in this fact did not register within his processors immediately. He had received the command over a thousand times in the past without failure and, having registered its efficacy, redundancy checks upon its functioning had long been discarded along with the efficacy record. One reason why any check on the […]