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, listening to the echoes of his own footsteps and the mumbling of a crazy man,was not the way to keep anyone mentally healthy. An engineered mass of rock about fifty kilometerssquare, the island housed only slightly more than two thousand No, herepeated, a little louder this time, and dislodged the boy's hand from his cloak. However, the problem with writing this kind of story is that it'snot really a series--it's one very, very

, or some autistic child whose deficits were beingimproved upon by technology, but at the time I remember being both fasci t mostparticularly I wanted to know how he manipulated the environment, since all of Otherland'scontrols were hidden from us. Orlando, poling the barge off a sandbar, found himself sympathetic enoughthat he resented having to steer the boat a bit But _everything_ is so strange.