All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 11.0 The Fume of the Opium Poppy
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Noetic File 11.0: The Fume of the Opium Poppy
The narrator fall more deeply into infatuation, and investigates the crime scene.
This file contains an early example of mechanologue, that is, dialog with artificial intelligence. It is not typical of the period, since it lacks the moral and mental aspirations common to the genre.
Whether this is an exaggeration for comedic effect, or a realistic depiction of the cynical nonchalance of earth-made posthuman beings, is a question whose answer elude modern scholarship.
Earth is the eldest of Earths, and the artifacts there have a long and bitter history of dealing with living men.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
