How did you...pass the time?” Sunday asked. "You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?”
"We had a different form of chinging,” Eunice said. "An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it ‘reading.' (Alastair Reynolds)

How did you...pass the time?” Sunday asked. "You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?” "We had a different form of chinging,” Eunice said. "An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it ‘reading.'

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