Stage 5 (12)
San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died.
After dinner we turned the lights out and played ´hide-and-seek´. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand.
A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal.
Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen!
In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why.
'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake,