(urth) 5HC

[Gerry Quinn]

On 27/08/2014 14:42, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Luckily, we still have the description of the girls legs on Ste. Anne 
> as grotesquely long and like staffs which jives with the heronlike 
> walk of abos in "A Story" and we still have the head scars on one of 
> the men who arrested Marsch who looked like the other two (scarring of 
> the head which has significance in Fifth Head for an abo man of 
> reproductive age). We also have the fact that the three men resemble 
> each other so much as to be of a family (though of course the mundane 
> explanation is the bottleneck effect of a genetically similar 
> population, I know).
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com 
> <mailto:marcaramini at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Here's a New Wave SF trick to do: in half the texts have the
>     landers instantly replaced by imitative abos who believe
>     themselves to be human, in the other half have Veil's hypothesis
>     be fake. And do it by changing two words.
>
>
>
Now that e-books have become common, we can be more ambitious. Circulate 
a trojan that will, in any machine it has infected, make such 
alterations occasionally in books that have not been opened for some time...

- Gerry Quinn
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