Jag tror att hon förlorar en älskad och bestämmer sig för att ta ett piller för att göra henne bättre. Hon omfattar så småningom teknik och blir en interplanetär (och möjligen inter-galax) resenär. Hon reser med användning av beacons av något slag. Till slut återvänder till jorden (Washington State Area, kanske Oregon.). Wow - Jag vet att det är vagt. Tack för någon hjälp. Jag försökte söka.
Låter som "The Gentle Seduction" av Marc Stiegler , som identifierades som svaret på den här gamla frågan och den här andra ; låter de beskrivningarna bli bekanta? Du kan läsa historien gratis på författarens webbplats .
Sammanfattning: En teknik-averse kvinna bor vid Mt. Rainier i staten Washington. Hennes man dör, hennes hund dör. I åldern 82 tar hon sitt första nanotechpiller för sin värkande rygg. En sak leder till en annan, och så småningom:
But in addition, the nanomachines in that system would continue to build. They would build machines and living flesh well suited to the conditions of the planet. And then the nanomachines would come back together into a single structure—not a needle now, but a communication bubble. Through the bubble and its instantaneous communication she could live across space. She could dwell at home near Jupiter yet roam among the stars.
She was often one of the first humans Called to newly opened planets. Her wisdom from earth, her expertise from Jupiter, these made her invaluable as an explorer and a guide. As she had swum within the methane oceans, so now she swam in carbon dioxide atmospheres, or flew through liquid mercury. She imprinted herself upon organic synapses and silicon circuits light years from home, and lived in many places.
Mentally she was bigger now than she had been at 25. The meaning of complexity had changed for her; she understood the laws of physics with the same simple clarity that she understood the rules of checkers. She could build a starship as easily as she could pitch a tent.
Hon betalar ett dödsbesök på sitt gamla berg:
The day came to say goodby to her oldest friend. With her wonderful old earth-born body, she returned to Earth to hike Rainier one last time: Rainier, whose surface lay so cold and eternal, was boiling within. With dawn, she knew, the boiling fury would break through, in the greatest volcanic event in earthly centuries. She stood at the summit the day before the end and surveyed the horizon. Her feeling of appreciation grew till she thought she would burst. This was home in a sense few others could now understand.
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