“How did you…pass the time?” Sunday asked. “You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?” “We had a… — Alastair Reynolds
“How did you…pass the time?” Sunday asked. “You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?”
“We had a different form of chinging,” Eunice said. “An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it ‘reading.’”
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