Sixty Days and Counting

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Kim Stanley Robinson. Sixty Days and Counting

Sixty Days and Counting. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Contents

ONE A New Reality

TWO Cut to the Chase

THREE Going Feral

FOUR The Technological Sublime

CUT TO THE CHASE

FIVE Undecided

SIX Sacred Space

SEVEN Emerson for the Day

CUT TO THE CHASE

EIGHT Partially Adjusted Demand

NINE The Third Good Correlation

CUT TO THE CHASE

TEN You Get What You Get

CUT TO THE CHASE

Acknowledgements

About the Author. SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING

Other Works

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Title Page

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Banishing the thought (recurrent about every hour) that they should have been doing this a long time ago, Frank called SCE and asked a long string of questions of the CPM (the Cognizant Program Manager, a useful acronym that only NSF appeared to use). This turned out to be a man who was more than happy to talk – who would have talked all day, maybe all night. With difficulty Frank got him to stop. Lots of enthusiasm for the Stirling system there.

Well, more grist for the mill. Over the past year Frank had been giving alternative energy about a quarter of his working time, and now he saw he was going to have to bump that up. Everything from now on would be jacked to emergency levels. Not a comfortable feeling, but there was no avoiding it. It was like an existential condition, as if he had become Alice’s White Rabbit: I’m late! I’m late! I’m late! And most of the time he managed to obscure from his conscious train of thought the true source of his anxiety.

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