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the ambition and the drive. He had spent his teenage years in
terror, knowing that he was doomed to follow in his parents'
footsteps of manual labor, tedious blue-collar work that
required no brains, no skill at all. Then even that bleak future
had been stolen from him by the Servant revolution.
But Rodney had had enough years ahead of him to plan a
little, to realize how he must adapt to survive in a rapidly
changing new world. He had pored over the resources of The
Net, isolating himself, focusing his teenage world on the
bright pixels. He expended all his effort to climb a few rungs
higher on the ladder of success, finally reaching a position
where he could feel important--Main Technician on Lower
Level Six of Resurrection, Inc.
But now, with Servants rapidly replacing many blue-collar
jobs, all the lower rungs in the ladder of success were also
disappearing--and Rodney Quick found himself back near the
bottom again through no fault of his own.


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Resurrection, Inc.
by Kevin J. Anderson


Rodney's father, who had worked in a factory that
manufactured shampoo and soap products, was killed in one
of the early anti-Servant riots, receiving the full force of an
Enforcer's scatter-stun. Rodney's mother, tossed out of her
job as a dishwasher at the Sunshine cafeteria, now lived off
the blue allotment, a special fund garnered from a tariff on
the purchase price of Servants. His mother now wandered the
streets with the other aimless and apathetic blues who had no
training and no hope for any other type of employment.
Competition was vicious for the remaining jobs, and Rodney's
mother didn't have the stamina or the enthusiasm to fight for
something she had always thought would be hers by default.
Nor would she have anything more to do with her son,
claiming that the stink of Resurrection clung to him and that it
reminded her of her husband's blood.
Rodney finished the synHeart operation on the pre-Servant
and sealed the dead man's chest, taking care to make certain
the skin seams matched. He then rigged up a slow-pump that
began the long and delicate process of refilling the blood
vessels with synBlood.
Rodney clasped his hands behind his back in a Napoleonic
pose and walked away from the pre-Servant on the table,
leaving the pumps to do their work. He inspected the entire
resurrection room like a commander surveying his troops.
Occasionally he had other human sub-technicians to assist