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Hardware Scenario G-49

James Alan Gardner

First published December 1991
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In a future world where humans are physically maintained in an unconscious state by benevolent robots while they live lives in virtual reality, a contented virtual hardware store owner and a virtual goddess Diana are chosen to reproduce, and decide that they should have a loving virtual relationship for the sake of the child.

First published in Amazing Stories, December 1991.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1991 Cover Amazing Stories, December 1991 TSR MAGAZINE 31
February 1998 Cover More Amazing Stories Tor Anthology 219
December 2000 Cover More Amazing Stories Tor Anthology 219
May 2005 Cover Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories Eos / HarperCollins Collection 209
April 2006 Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories Eos / HarperCollins Collection 209
April 2014 Cover Gravity Wells Open Road Integrated Media Collection 209