You would lose the memories you had acquired after the backup was made, but that was better than non-existence … That was the theory. Beyond the limb of the sun more stars hung, but they were also swollen, pale beasts, their misshapen discs visible. Soon we were so far beneath the ice roof that it was invisible, and we three and the crab that dragged us down were a single point of light falling into the dark. All three stared at Tawus with wide unsmiling eyes.
Just jump in…”“Are you insane? You want us to jump into the caldera of a volcano, after a bunch of metal-chewing monster spiders?”But Miriam and Poole, as was their way, had pounced on the new idea. Passing through the wormholes and back again would be a way for the spiders to unify their operations across the moon. “If the machines—the artilects—vanished without warning, how could you ever know any of this?”“Because they came back and told us. Ordinarily she doesn’t talk to her petitioners at all.
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