Gorilla, My Dreams
By David Brin
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A comedy set in David Brin’s Uplift Universe. In the distant future, chimpanzees and dolphins have been uplifted to starfaring status -- and are helping humans choose the next species for uplift, when powerful alien starships arrive to wipe out all life on Earth.
David Brin
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.
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Gorilla, My Dreams - David Brin
Gorilla, My Dreams
A Comedy of The Uplift Universe
By David Brin
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 David Brin
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How strange that such an insignificant little world should matter so much.
The perplexity of it all bothered the Exemplary Cogitator of Expedient Action as she pondered a holographic image of the wolfling world... this Earth... which now lay within sensor range, just out of reach. Oh, how she longed to give the command --
ATTACK!
SWOOP DOWN UPON THE NEST OF WOLFLING HERETICS.
END THEIR INSOLENCE, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
But the Exemplary Cogitator restrained herself. For the present, her Calumnite battle fleets dared approach no closer than half a light year. The place was too well defended, and anyway, soon other armadas, representing dozens of rival clans and alliances would be arriving from all over the galaxy to fight each other over the right of conquest. Eventually, of course, the Calumnites would prevail, and finally come to possess what she and her galaxy-spanning race desired most.
The blue-green ball spun before her, swaddled in fleecy clouds, appearing ever so peaceful. Yet it was the home of those trouble-making humans and their uplifted clients -- neo-dolphins and neo-chimpanzees -- a tiny, parvenu clan which had managed in just a few lifespans to thoroughly upset the venerable society of the Five Galaxies.
But it didn't begin there. The Exemplary Cogitator mused. Who started all this? Someone must have secretly raised the humans up from animal pre-sentience, and designed them to be annoying. What sick race pulled such a vile trick on the established order?
It was a deeply disturbing quandary. And yet, while she contemplated the blue globe, a more immediate concern flowed upward from her vitals, fixating her thoughts closely upon the image. The Exemplary Cogitator unfurled a long, elegantly pedicured pseudopod to envelop the simulacrum, drawing the ersatz planet toward her, leaving a trail of imitation atmospheric haze and droplets of seawater, fizzing and evaporating into vacuum. Synthetic continents trembled, tectonic plates scraped and liquefied like melting pastry under her pseudopods, as she savored the aroma her kind coveted most... terror.
Ah, she mused, inhaling a steamy mist of dread that wafted from the little pseudo-world.
Time for lunch.
Tf'Sheet
A short, round-shouldered figure entered the recreation dome wearing lederhosen, a halter top, and pince nez glasses. The bowlegged form sauntered across a stretch of plush, geniformed grass to the edge of the exercise pool and slapped the water's surface with a hairy palm.
Hey Fishie! I got 'nother one for ya. C'mon over an' hear it!
Sound transmits differently in a pressurized dome at the meeting of air and liquid, where surface tension makes the interface