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Sarah put her in a spaceplane and watched her leave. A month later, the Isolationist party won in Russia and her pseudo-mother, the only person that had been kind to her, was arrested from transhumanist tendencies.
It is also noteworthy that during that period, in the colony, Laura Lebedev – Despite being treated as an animal, but at least the colonists kept it subtle – still got asked out a lot… Mostly by Cordwainer Smith fans…
Sarah had promised her that in the colonies it would be different, that there were no luddites or xenophobes there, but it was the same. On Earth it was raw contempt, in the habitats it was slightly more polite. They didn’t hate her, in the colonies, but they didn’t like her there. Like those who voted in favor of uplifting monkeys into sentience, and then didn’t want to live with suit-wearing apes.
Humans did not want to acknowledge they were no longer the only sentient species known to them, they would’ve cried out across the whole of Sunspace if they had known Laura was a posthuman, and they would have felt embarrassed for all eternity if they had known she noticed they were lusting after a splice – Which, of course, made everyone uncomfortable. It was too indecent, too unimaginably indecent.

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