5/21/2023 0 Comments Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Personas (or personae) are wetware programmes with which users can augment, supplement or overlay their personality. In ‘Vacuum Flowers’ – the title refers both to the genetically engineered blue flowers which grow in vacuum on the surface of asteroids and to the many societies which have flowered in various exotic habitats within the Solar System – the element sought is the persona of Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark. The basic pursuit scenario is either that the protagonist is in search of something or someone, the discovery of which is of vital importance to the outcome of the story, or else the protagonist is the pursued and his or her capture, or that of whatever he or she possesses, is of vital importance. If she survives.’īlurb from the 1989 Legend paperback edition. So she does what anybody sane would do – she escapes.Īnd in the sprawling, mad civilisations of the future, she’s in for a very interesting time indeed. If she stays in the Medical Centre, she has No Future. The body she awakes in isn’t her own: her mind is unique the agency owning her is deadly. ‘Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is hot property. ![]()
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