The Pardoner's Tale
June, 1987
The Pardoner's TaleKey sixteen, Housing Omicron Kappa, aleph sub-one," I said to the software on duty at the Alhambra gate of the Los Angeles Wall.Software isn't generally suspicious. This wasn't even very smart software. It was working off some great biochips--I could feel them jigging and pulsing as the electron stream flowed through them--but the software itself was just a kludge. Typical gatekeeper stuff.I stood waiting as the picoseconds went ticking away by the millions."Name, pl...