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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
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In the future envisioned in the novel, fossil fuels have been exhausted. And how do you replace an energy source as small and portable as gasoline?
Just for purposes of comparison, consider that a gallon of gas (and you know how big a gallon of milk is) is the energy equivalent of 500 hours of human labor. For about $3.50 - that's how cheap energy is in the US. For now.
Kink-springs are charged with animal work:
Compare to the shipstone from Robert Heinlein's 1982 novel Friday.
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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