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143 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2017
“In the beginning, God created the neuron, and when electricity flowed through the three-dimensional nerve cell matrix in the brain, there was consciousness.”
“The more nerve cells the better, and our brains contain hundreds of billions of neurons; that's why we make better lasagna than chimpanzees.”
The war had been fought and won by drone pilots-men and women in control rooms far from the battlefields, where unmanned machines fought each other in a strategy game played over seven years. […] The drone technology was praised because it spared us meaningless loss of life.
The collateral damage was of two kinds: the civilians unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire, and the children of the federal pilots, who, as a concession to the godheads of defense technology, were all stillborn.
At some point, when I was about ten, I decided to lock up all the memories of my mother and not talk about her with anyone, and I managed to do that until one night in Soest six years later, when I suddenly told Amanda everything in an empty playground. We had been sitting in the net up on the jungle gym, and my head was in her lap. It was fall, and she was wearing knitted fingerless mittens and caressing my forehead. The gloves were gray, with snowflakes on them. She wore those gloves all winter, and then in the spring she moved.
veďlajšie škody boli dvojakého druhu: civili, ktorí sa nešťastnou náhodou ocitli v krížovej paľbe, a deti federálnych pilotov, ktoré sa ako ústupok božstvu vojenskej technológie všetky narodili mŕtve.Nasleduje upútavka na najnovšiu prilbu od Sentre Mode 6, ktorá príde 1.11.1996 do ponuky... čo? o čom meliem?