The star cruiser Culture 1 resembles a giant library, but there are vending machines in the stairwells, and storage closets where we sleep, and there are lounges on every level, where constructs can meet each other, discuss pre-Socratic philosophers or MTV or Edward Hopper paintings, and attempt to fall in love.

Until now, it has taken generations of dogs and people to develop a truly new breed....Now, bioengineering technology allows us to supersede traditional breeding techniques and create previously unrealizable innovations.

At Our Lady of Perpetual Memory, / funereal fads can be followed for centuries.