That was until the accident. When I was ten years old, Mum and Dad were driving home from work together when a drunk, teen joyrider crashed into their...car. Dad lived, Mum did not. Since then, I had lived alone with Dad in what I can only describe as a fractious relationship. Dad was a businessman, who mainly concerned himself with his busy work life which consisted of selling car-parts. He never really supported my dancing, I suppose he thought it was for girls and pufters. Hed pay half of my. ”“You like science fiction?” David asked, his tone making the possibility sound doubtful.“Why do you find that hard to believe?” Judith asked, pickup up on his tone.“I just didn’t think anyone that works here would like things like that,” David answered, realizing even as he said it that it was a pretty stupid thing to say.“Because we’re all old and unimaginative, right?” Judith smiled before adding, “I’ll have you know that not only do I read science fiction, but one of my most prized. Rejection by the computer would have been a terrible blow. Everyone had been surprised when it she had been accepted by the computer, but it was feared that no Hero would ever chose her.Repeated rejection by different Heroes would have been devastating. It had happened only a few times in the past, but the result had led to suicides on the part of the women involved. Mercedes had argued her case with the council using her superior intellect. She asserted that a great Hero would overlook her. Flaws will make my world interesting and, if nothing else, at least I won't have to keep talking to myself anymore. I can call my first two Archie and Edith. No, too middle class. How about Adam and Eve? I love it!And the Lord God formed the first Man from a pile of dung, and beer-belched life and soul into him.And God put the Man Adam in a garden called Eden. And in Eden, God put every food that is non-nutritious and highly caloric, every plant that is toxic and ugly; various kinds of.