On 12 May 2015 07:15:00 GMT, Mike M <
mi...@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>Greg Goss <
go...@gossg.org> wrote:
>> Don Bruder <
dak...@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> Greg Goss <
go...@gossg.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> There was another one where he ended up getting DECLARED dead. So
>>>> whenever he tried some crime, the arrest robots would show up, do a
>>>> biometric reading of who they were arresting, and freeze while he
>>>> walked away.
>>>
>>> That one smells suspiciously like something Varley would do, but I can't
>>> quite put my finger on it...
>>
>> It was in a collection of explicitly Canadian stories by Canadian
>> authors. I think that the author was "Robert" something.
>>
>> (I know that one of Varley's short stories sounded exactly like a back
>> alley off Granville, but I don't remember if it was explicitly
>> Vancouver. (viewpoint character meets a street girl hanging off an
>> expensive powered exoskeleton in an urban alley. Don't remember the
>> rest of the story.)
>
>Sounds like a Sheckley to me but I don't recall this one precisely