Re: Serial consciousness

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Wed, 02 Oct 1996 21:33:57 -0700


Crosby_M wrote:

> Actually, there is a wonderful recent story by Amy Thomson, _The Color
> of Distance_ (11/95), <snip> Their language involves gestures and symbols that
> they generate on their chameleon-like skin.

25 years ago I read a short science fiction story about critters which
lived on
a moon with a very thin atmosphere, so that the mean free distance
(between
molecular collisions) was a few kilometers. They had "eyes" which
consisted of
a sphere lined with olfactory sensors and a small hole, which acted like
a
pinhole camera. Truly smell-a-vision...

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