Lev Korchnoi said, linking in from a pod module in near-space, “sorry I’ve been so long getting back to you and your LogiBoxes up there, but have you ever noticed the way problems don’t come singly—they come in clusters? I mean, it’s not bad enough that we’re under all this time pressure with the Mob Cad show and we’re still getting glitches in the shobots. Now the team leader at my Communications day job has a bee up his butt about this space junk, so at this very minute I’m on my way to take a close-up look-see at the stuff—just to make sure Communications isn’t implicated. As if that weren’t enough already, I get a query from this woman, Marissa somebody, wondering if our skysign might have accidentally zapped her friend, Roger Cortland, because he had an ‘adverse reaction’ to it in its first public appearance!” Lakshmi nodded gravely. “I know exactly what you mean. I just got a message from the other Cortland, Atsuko herself.
