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Agnosis

Language English
Published 2008
Website www.lulu.com
Notes

Squid-free science fiction. Still no car chases.

Approx. 241,987 words.

Excerpt

l summary of your entire afternoon's activities that led ultimately to your grin of satisfaction that attracted my interest in the first place. You unnecessarily try to explain the logic, the binary, and other sundry intricacies of the data structure in such a way that I'll understand the full scope and magnitude of your brilliance." She flashed him an insouciant wink. "I've sought to avoid all that conversation porn."

"Conversation porn?" he repeated dully.

"Mindless and disposable verbal transactions that exist solely to preface the ultimate event, but which otherwise completely fail to move the action along. By cutting out all the conversation porn, we skipped all of that annoying interaction and got right down to the important bits, to wit, that you were spiking an intruder and proud of yourself for it. My way is a more efficient mode of communication."

He sighed. "It's more efficient data transfer."

"Yes, that, too." She grinned, and if she'd attached another saucy wink to it,