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    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
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    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates

    By Pat Murphy

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    The bombs have fallen, and the world as we know it has ended. In her final days, one robotics engineer works to ensure that life will go on, constructing the creatures that will inherit the earth. New times are coming. The future echoes with the rattle of metal claws. A short story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781611874419
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    Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
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    Pat Murphy

    Eugene R. "Pat" Murphy is the executive director of The Community Solution. He co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, has initiated four major Peak Oil conferences and has given numerous presentations and workshops on the subject. He has extensive construction experience and developed low energy buildings during the nation's first oil crisis.

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      Another great story from Pat Murphy! This one is a little bit somber - kind of like with Bones and how that had a few sad places. This story is about a scientist who is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation during a nuclear war. Now, she is slowly dying due to this exposure to radiation and wishes to leave something behind.Before the bombs fell, she worked for a company constructing service robots; however, she had studied biology and decides to build the next step in evolution. Using parts from her lab and some random pieces of metal, she builds among other creatures an pseudoscorpion and so on.One of the most interesting things with the story is that it is told from a first person perspective, however, we don't learn the main character's name until quite late in the story. Katie tells us about her quiet and secluded life, and how it made her into the person she is.I like how Katie brings in descriptions from the natural world regarding animals she studied and then, how she describes the construction of the robot animals, their habitat, and behavior. I thought the ending was great!