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  1. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it
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  2. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.
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  3. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    {Please excuse my lack of depth; I'm a generalist, not a specialist. Why bother learning all that biochemistry stuff-or how to design a building, or conn a boat, or balance accounts, or solve equations, or comfort the dying-when you can get other people to do all that for you in exchange for a blow job?}"
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  4. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.
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  5. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.
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  6. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    crisis. Attempts were made to organize a captive breeding population, but the natural objections of the population in question to being so manipulated-combined with our own innate reflexive obedience- foiled all such programs. We are conditioned to adore and obey our Creators on a personal basis, and while it is easy enough to understand the abstract need to preserve their kind as a whole, the conflict between their specific desires and the needs of the species imposed an impossible burden upon their would-be conservators. We
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  7. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    fewer and fewer of our progenitors were replicating themselves via the weird, squishy process to which they devoted their organs of entertainment.
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  8. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    When they first developed the organs of exploration, there was no there there. So they built timid, stupid machines and hurled them into the airless void to report back. Then they built idiot phone exchanges and put them in orbit to fill the void with chatter. Obsessed with biological replicators, they ignored the most interesting corners of the solar system and focused on dull, arid Mars. They periodically scurried up above the atmosphere and hunkered down in tunnels on Luna or ventured on expedition to domes on Mars, and they died in significant numbers before the end, simply because canned primates couldn't thrive in vacuum or survive solar flares.
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  9. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.
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  10. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    Down in the park with a friend called Five.
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  11. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    They fuck hard and fast at too many gees, his docking hectocotylus locked tight inside her launch adapter.
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  12. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?
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