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| Hyper-Developed Mulies | ||
| Bioengineered animals that optimally transform vegetable matter into usable mechanical energy. |
| A half-dozen hyper-developed mulies crouched on their treadmills,
their rib cages billowing slowly, their flanks streaked with salt lines of
sweat residue from the labor of winding Lalji’s boat springs. They blew
air through their nostrils, nervous at Lalji’s sudden scent, and gathered
their squat legs under them. Muscles like boulders rippled under their
bony hides as they stood. They eyed Lalji with resentful near-intelligence.
One of them showed stubborn yellow teeth that matched its owner’s.
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| Technovelgy from The Calorie Man,
by Paolo Bacigalupi. Published by F&SF in 2005 Additional resources -
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'And he had been sent with troops, supplies and bombs to command Russia's most trusted post, the Moonbase.'
'What is your population', I asked. 'About eighty millions.'
'THE autobus turned silently down the wide street of Hydropole. Robot-guided, insulated from noise and cold...'
'The car had no steering wheel, and no one drove!'
Now that's power walking that Hugo Gernsback would have approved.
'It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct...'
'...he rewired the delivery robot so that it would serve him midnight snacks.'
'On went the electric-yacht faster and still faster.'
'...the huge vessel had spun, with a sickening lurch, through a complete half-circle, the instant the power was reversed.'
'...he realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it.'
