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Better Sweets to Prove Than Sleep
Lisa says:
Every new mother wishes there were about ten more hours in a day, just so she can get everything done. Curiously enough, I penned this long before Amélie arrived.
(2005) Appears in
Reviews:
Recommended for a Nebula Award, October, 2005
*
Mantchev's conceit -- a technological fix for the problem of 8 wasted hours' sleep -- is utterly 21st century, and the story is just the right length for a quick hit on the idea and what it could mean for us.
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing
*
An interesting concept she's come up with makes a great story.
SF Read of the Week at Cavan Terrill's Blurred Line Blog
Excerpt:
Jenna retrieved four poems memorized in third grade, the capitols of the fifty-four states, and the molecular structure of hydrogen. She dumped them in the recycle bin, shuffled around her free memory and recategorized the Townsend project as High Priority.
Zach grunted above her but she couldn’t concentrate on little things like his sweating body and enthusiastic penetration with so much junk swirling around in her head.