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Short Story

Born Free

Trevor Emmott reports on a future project to create perfect freedom.

The First of January in the year 5000 is a public holiday on Earth and the colonized planets. Everywhere the millennium celebrations are in full swing. There are of course the usual debates about whether this day really does mark the start of a new millennium or whether there is another year to wait. Apart from that, the main talking point is Charlie.

For today Charlie is to be ‘born’.

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