Toasted Cake 236! In which we pick up a chisel.
So, on paper the project was called the Supersimulation, but privately, we called it "The Nine Bajillion Names of God".
This story first appeared right here in Daily SF.
Aimee Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester; now she writes stories about sad astronauts, angry princesses and dead gods. Her stories also appear in Fireside, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and her novella "Sun-daughters, Sea-daughters" is forthcoming from Tor.com. With Bennett North, she co-edits Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction.
TC236-nine-bajillion.mp3
So, on paper the project was called the Supersimulation, but privately, we called it "The Nine Bajillion Names of God".
This story first appeared right here in Daily SF.
Aimee Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester; now she writes stories about sad astronauts, angry princesses and dead gods. Her stories also appear in Fireside, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and her novella "Sun-daughters, Sea-daughters" is forthcoming from Tor.com. With Bennett North, she co-edits Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction.
TC236-nine-bajillion.mp3