A Great Death Story The man telling the country how to survive an apocalyptic event must now travel across the country to teach people how to heal themselves. David's saga continues, only without David. Instead his followers set off in multiple directions, taking his cure to other communities in the hope everyone can treat their own people, while not getting themselves killed! This sequel follows each girl as they journey to different cities, trying to convince reluctant survivors to trust them to make them sick.
What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?
A story in the The Universe from a future where humans and sentient AIs meet as legal equals and chosen partners
In 2285, college student Janice Frederick receives what appears to be a straightforward assignment: explain how synthetic sentience emerged and transformed civilization. But Professor James Wilson does not want a timeline of inventions and court decisions. He wants the people the timeline forgot. Janice’s search carries her through more than a century of human and technological change—from life-extension research and controlled fusion to optical memory, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence
The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations which make up our present viewpoint. Now, suppose that these associations could be altered artificially, at the option of the person who was in charge of the process....