Waterlilies
Originally published in the Summer 2010 issue of Space and Time magazine, “Waterlilies” was my take on the dangers of runaway nanotechnology. Why, it occurred to me, did the goo have to be grey…?
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“HERE, MONKEY, MONKEY, MONKEY!”
Danny eased a step closer to the black-leather couch. The rhesus macaque balanced on the armrest bared its teeth. Danny snarled back, then lunged. All he came up with was a handful of fur; the monkey, chattering, scampered to the farthest armrest.
Just beyond rose a meter-and-a-half-tall column of purple glass, lit from within and topped by a 25-centimetre nude woman. Molded of synthiflesh over a robotic armature, lifelike in colour and texture, correct in every anatomical detail, she was the only piece from Danny’s breakthrough one-man show
