Co-creation

Co-creation

Judy Backhouse

Published by Judy Backhouse, 2023.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

CO-CREATION

First edition. July 1, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Judy Backhouse.

ISBN: 978-9893347195

Written by Judy Backhouse.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Co-creation

About the Author

If you really want to hear about it, you’ll need a hundred of my sol-orbits. Do you have that much time?

Actually, I do.

Hmmmf. A dust cloud arose on one of my larger planes and swirled across the surface. You’re a small species, so I was guessing short-lived.

Yes, short-lived, but with some cool mods, both biological and technological, that put me on your time-scale. If I understand your time-scale correctly. The small creature added this qualifier with modest self-deprecation, which pleased me.

Feeling about in my substrates, I could sense the metal and bio compounds it was constructed of. It felt and looked messy. Cobbled together without the precise design of evolved biological forms. The strangest thing I’d encountered in my twenty galaxy-orbits. I sensed tensions between the precise logic of circuitry and the broad intuition of wet-ware.

Why do you want to know? Where are you from? Sceptical and a little tired, I wasn’t about to launch into a local history lesson without good cause.

I come from a planet that orbits a star in the Tucana III dwarf galaxy, not so very far from your Milky Way.

I tried to place Tucana III. I knew the name, like one knows about a distant city or country, but couldn’t call to mind anything specific. I