At 12:40 PM 18/09/00 -0500, Barbara wrote:
>have some glowing birds with the size, flight ability, and disposition of
>domestic chickens but with brightly colored plumage. I'd like for them to
>eat mostly insects and to have a only limited taste for plants. At
>night the birds could roost in the trees and provide nice, mellow
>lighting for the garden. Self replicating lights.
Sorry if I keep knee-jerking these sf references, but I've been re-reading
a 1958 novella by the late John Brunner for my new anthology of far future
fiction, called (after his story's title, taken from a wonderful James
Elroy Flecker poem) EARTH IS BUT A STAR. His hundredth millennium setting
has neighborhoods marked by just such differently-colored glowing
genetically-engineered fowls of the night.
Damien Broderick
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