Timothy’s Reviews > Bimbos & Zombies: Bimbos of the Death Sun / Zombies of the Gene Pool > Status Update

Jim Conyers looked out at the dead lake. "It was the right reunion," he said at last. "Bickering, posturing, arrogance, and occasional lapses of genuine affection. They were my best friends, God help me." He smiled. "They were the best friends I ever had."

She wanted to cry just thinking about the distance between then and now, and about how short life is, and how easy it is to lose the thread between people.

"Three thousand years in the future...And they still get mail? We don't even do that on campus. I leave messages for people on the computer mainframe, and they just check their file once a day. Electronic mail. Instantaneous."
"You don't send messages to me like that."
"No, just other engineers, mostly. But eventually the English Department will catch on, and I don't think it will take three thousand years."

It wasn't until I got to the end of the Author's Note that I realized it wasn't a Prologue.