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him in some of the inspections and operations, but most of
the time Rodney remained the only human on the floor, with
only a few other Servants to handle the uninteresting tasks.


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Resurrection, Inc.
by Kevin J. Anderson


Seventy different vats rose from floor to ceiling, dispersed
in perfect geometrical order around the room. Some of the
vats were for the initial bath of scrubber bacteria; others were
for the solution of genetically volatile bacteria to perform the
finishing touches before reanimation. Intermediate holding
chambers of mud-thick silvery paste were sunk into the floor
between some of the vats. At any one time Rodney could
prepare over a hundred different Servants for resurrection.
While grooming himself for a position at Resurrection, Inc.,
Rodney had reached out through The Net, uncovering the
scattered history of Servants and the corporation. After many
abortive attempts to build a serviceable, human-looking
android, researchers had given up in despair at the incredible
task of manufacturing something as sophisticated as the
human body. Even the few almost-successful android
attempts would have been prohibitively expensive to mass-
produce--and if android labor was going to cost more than
even Union workers, why bother at all?
But fifteen years before, Francois Nathans had realized
that a nearly inexhaustible supply of almost-androids lay
waiting to be used: the perfect machine of the human body,
discarded at death but often still completely serviceable with
only a few minor repairs. Rather than trying to recreate out of
inanimate materials, and then mass-produce, the delicate
interconnecting mechanisms of neurons and muscles and
bones and tendons and sensory organs, Nathans argued that
it made more sense to find a new "engine" to put into these
already built--but no longer functional--machines, instead of
doing everything from scratch.

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Resurrection, Inc.
by Kevin J. Anderson


The sophisticated microprocessor embedded in a Servant's
head linked into the existing contours of the brain, simulating
life. Attached to the proper ganglia, the microprocessor acted