Author(s): Peter Watts
Publisher: Tor Books
Date : 2001
The day after Patricia Rowan saved the world, a man named Elias Murphy brought a piece of her conscience home to roost.
She hardly needed another one. Her tactical contacts already served up an endless stream of death and damage, numbers far too vague to qualify as estimates. It had only been sixteen hours; even orders of magnitude were barely more than guesses. But the machines kept trying to pin it down, this many million lives, that many trillion dollars, as if quantifying the apocalypse would somehow render it harmless.
Maybe it would at that, she reflected. The scariest monsters always knew enough to disappear just before you turned on the lights.
She eyed Murphy through the translucent display in her head: a man eclipsed by data he couldn't even see. His face contained its own information, though. She recognised it instantly.
Elias Murphy hated her. To Elias Murphy, the monster was Patricia Rowan.
She didn't blame him. He'd probably lost someone in the quake. But if Murphy knew the role she'd played, he must also know what the stakes had been. No rational being would blame her for taking the necessary steps.
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