Lalji unmoored and took his place at the tiller. He unlocked the kink-springs and the boat whirred into the deeper current, stored joules dripping from its precision springs in a steady flow as molecules unlocked, one after another, reliable from the first kink to the last.
From ‘The Calorie Man’, by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Published by F&SF in 2005.
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