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"Is he?"

"No, that's his boss. Professor Thanthavong."

"I'm really looking forward to meeting her," J.D. said.
"Do you think I'll get a chance to?"

"Sure. She's not standoffish at all. The more you can forget
she's famous, the better you'll get along with her, eh? Any-

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way, Stephen Thomas still does some bioelectronics. though
that's pretty much been taken over by the developers. He's
branched out into theories of non-nucleic-acid inheritance.
Exogenetics. One of our celebrated 'nonexistent' disciplines.
The equipment he needs is pretty standard lab stuff, but when
he came up, he brought a lot of extraneous things."

"How did he talk it all through cargo?"

Victoria made a strange little motion of her shoulders, a
gesture of amused disbelief. J.D. wondered why she did not
simply shake her head. Maybe it had something to do with
her being Canadian. J.D. had studied a number of different
cultures, but had never looked past the superficial resem-
blance of Canadian culture to the majority culture of the U:S.
She decided not to admit that to Victoria.

"If you ask Arachne for the definition of 'charm,' " Vic-
toria said. "it gives you back a picture of Stephen Thomas
Gregory."

J.D. followed Victoria to their places. Victoria helped her
transfer her allowance into a string bag, then showed her how


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to strap in against the upright lounge. It held her in a position
with her hips and knees slightly flexed.

"Where are the controls for this thing?" J.D. looked for
the way to turn the lounge into a chair. "How do you sit
down?"

"You don't," Victoria said. "It takes a lot of energy to
keep your body in a sitting position in microgravity. It's much
easier to lie nearly flat. Or stand, depending on how you look