... of the annual Wagner festival, so he found himself on the Ammon Ra, a gilt airship drifting luxuriously from Cairo towards Berlin. The seats in the ...
... nouveau riche corporate psychics-were shooting angels off the starboard side of the craft. Burning cherubim fell screaming along ...
... memory merchants were clogging the club car, debating prices in obscure hand signs and offering him small fluted vials of swirling green and pink vapor. ...
... the Dream car. Unfortunately, the only sleepers on the airship at that time of day were children and their dozing nannies. The dreams they presented were ...
... stuffed animals or long lost loves. Walking back to his private cabin, he mused that travel used to be more interesting when it was restricted to a certain ...
... done. Cataracts were all the rage in Europe that Spring. It was his good fortune that the ship's plastic surgeons had a cancellation in the afternoon. He ...
... the ship by one of the attendants assigned just to the stylishly blind. He was part of a small group that included a couple of ex-astronauts and the ...
... business stories. Blindness created a certain chumminess among its fashion victims, he observed. He found it charming in such a cosmopolitan city. Pleasure ...