Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"You mean what other universes?" Alan asked."Yes.""Morg's. She sees the McReadys fairly often, she's been tothe Bovok’s and even to Colonel Kruger's with Thom."The captain represented his data access as a phone. Henamed and saved that conversation, loaded a blank one. Hewas clumsy at it, he'd have been better with a one-viewerkeyboard but didn't seem to learn much new since he enteredthe Afterlife. "Ava has taught you a lot about her work,"Kelvin said to begin the new conversation."A little, my sentence doesn't...""You knew more than anyone else on the crew beforeyour sentence began.""I was just hacking," Alan said, "there was no science toit." The one thing that made him think he might not really beguilty of the hack was the fact that he really didn't know how.He had memories of keying things in and making it all up, buthe didn't really know that much, they would have to have allworked by luck. He also had memories of being a man inflesh, placed under a helmet in the basements of the Kassikan,where he was given those other memories in a pill, andtransmitted back to Gordon's Lamp. Virtuality theory provesit is impossible to really know which of those is right."You do know what encapsulation is don't you?" Kelvinasked him.'I know a lot more about encapsulation than you do,' hethought, but said only, "Yes sir."104