（外文电子版资料）Terry Bisson - Macs.pdf

file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Terry%20Bisson%20-%20Macs.txt MACS by TERRY BISSON Originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1999 What did I think? Same thing I think today. I thought it was slightly weird even if it was legal. But I guess I agreed with the families that there had to be Closure. Look out that window there. I can guarantee you, its unusual to be so high in Oklahoma City. Ever since it happened, this town has had a thing about tall buildings. Its almost like that son of a bitch leveled this town. Hell, we wanted Closure too, but they had a court order all the way from the Supreme Court. I thought it was about politics at first, and I admit I was a little pissed. Dont use the word pissed. What paper did you say you were with? Never heard of it, but thats me. Anyway, I was miffed -- is that a word? miffed? -- until I understood it was about Victims Rights. So we cancelled the execution, and built the vats, and you know the rest. Well, if you want to know the details you should start with my assistant warden at the time, who handled the details. Hes now the warden. Tell him I sent you. Give him my regards. -*- I thought it opened a Pandoras box, and I said so at the time. It turns out of course that there havent been that many, and none on that scale. The ones that there are, we get them all. Were sort of the Sloan-Ketterings of the thing. See that scum on the vats? Youre looking at eleven of the guy who abducted the little girls in Ohio, the genital mutilation thing, remember? Even elevens unusual. We usually build four, maybe five tops. And never anything on the scale of the macs. Build, grow, whatever. If youre interested in the technology, youll have to talk with the vat vet himself. Thats what we call him, hes a good old boy. He came in from the ag school for the macs and hes been here in Corrections ever since. He was an exchange student, but