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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bear, Greg
[Slant] / Greg Bear. -lst ed.
The title consists solely of the slant sign.
“A Torn Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-3 I 2-85517-6 (hardcover: acid-free paper) I. Title.
First Edition: July 1997
Printed in the United States of America
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Oataflow today is money/blood, the living substance of our human rivers/arteries. You can steamboat the big flow, or slowly raft these rivers
up and down the world, or canoe into the branches and backwaters, with almost perfect freedom. There are a few places you can’t go–Saudi Arabia,
Northern Enclave China, some towns in Green Idaho. Nobody much cares to go there anyway. Not much exciting is happening in those places.
–The U.S. Government Digiman on Dataflow Economics, 56Revision, 2052
Omphalos dominates Moscow, Green Idaho. It glows pale silver and gold like
a fancy watch waiting to be stolen. A tetrahedron four hundred feet high, with
two vertical faces and a triangular base, it is the biggest thing in town, more
ostentatious than the nearby Mormon temple, though not so painfully white
and spiky. The leading edge points at the heart of Moscow like a woodsman’s
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