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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
- Bart Kosko
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| Firebulance | ||
| An ambulance equipped to sterilize by fire. |
| Two years or so ago the dark red, shiny firebulance had stopped down at the end of Melda’s street. She had peered between the blinds and seen the doctor and his Burnador crew getting out. The Burnadors were very thin, dressed all in black. People said that was for protection against the intense heat from the fire torches they carried, and that that was why their eyeballs and teeth were blackened too. But looking at them, weaving restlessly in the street behind the doctor, Nelda had found it easy to believe the other thing people whispered about the Burnadors — that they weren’t human beings at all...
The doctor looked like an ordinary man. The Burnadors, black and thin, wove in an uneasy, flickering dance behind him on the step. “Where’s the infected man?” the doctor asked. |
| Technovelgy from Vector,
by Margaret St. Clair. Published by Future Science Fiction in 1958 Additional resources -
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It turns out that there was no plague at all!
"I was on the list because. . . I’d been in Nevada between 1963 and 1966.
“Those were the years they were doing so many super-bomb tests...
"People were assured the tests were quite harmless. Nevada was crowded with visitors who came to see the big, pretty, innocent fireworks..."
"The plague scare was something the government cooked up to hide something else...
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