Entertaining techno-yarn from Rucker, featuring a young urban couple with a toddler. Even though it’s a high-tech world, a few years from now, there still remain the usual challenges to such people – getting on the housing ladder, getting a bigger housing, managing jobs and child-rearing.
Bix has found something interesting in his tech work with squidskins, under contract with a couple of Manilans living nearby. When the discussion over who has rights to his morphon muncher go to the next level, thinks get funky chicken.