"Then she was kissing him and he was kissing her and in the ceiling sky display the morning stars sang together." (21, p. 274) See Job 38:7.
The Inrai attack the Star Net Station. A robot voice tells them to halt and warns them that they are in mortal danger. Pale blue fire splits suits and bursts bodies. The second rank cooks and chars. The third rank slows as if running into glue, then pulls back. The Inrai have encountered not a defense against military attack but a hydrodynamic force-field to protect the Station from meteorite impacts. (20, pp. 257-259)
From roasted, then frozen, bodies, Martian police remove damaged brains, attach them to tubes and wires in chemical baths, then activate and interpret partial memory traces. Screens display data and a voice synthesizer croaks fragmentary phrases. (p. 260)
Will that be police work in the future?
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Kaor, Paul!
Now that interesting, with Anderson speculating about what futuristic police investigatory methods might become. I'm reminded of how PA was fond of mysteries, and wrote some of his own, both in and out of the SF field.
I thought just now of his science fictional Holmesian story, "The Martian Crown Jewels," which was also set on Mars and one of its moons.
Ad astra! Sean
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