In 1620 junks began to arrive from China depositing hundreds of migrants, and with the resumption of China's official trade to Southeast Asia in 1683, the numbers of junks arriving annually in Batavia's roadstead grew from an average of three or four to about twenty.

Once you finally deliver your baby, the next few days are a complete blur of feedings, burpings, and awesomesauce nurses being on hand to help you with everything.

He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . .

He particularly liked the box full of companions, small, hand-held mechs with advanced AI functions, programmed as individual advice and information systems.