Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the Las Vegas of Europe.The car was electric with three bicycle wheels andbodywork that looked like thick cellophane. They almost hadto lie on top of each other to all fit in it. It was manualsteering until they were out of the garage, from there it wasan app on a phone that let Budauni select an address. Shecould now guess the ikon for ‘home’ in this language.She had to remember this was heaven, just like life shouldhave been, only perfect. No one was poorer than they wantedto be or worked harder than they wanted to. There was alwaysenough to go around and charitable groups ran a surplus.Even so, they were delayed by traffic on a big bridge thatreached from an inner ring island, to the main island near theedge of the caldera wall, allowing motor vehicle access to aroad system that reached all over the island. Dozens ofhangers shuttled by in each direction over them while theywaited in that traffic.She knew of this transportation system of Earth. Theywere never seen in Eastern North America except on a screen,but they were in use in Singapore, Mumbai and Abu Dhabiwhile she was mortal. While Gordon’s Lamp went to 61Cygni and back, they had become common in the major citiesof the wealthy nations. This branch of history was the sameexcept that Atlantis was still one of the world’s major cities inspite of it’s small population.Half the people spoke Minoan, a third spoke Greek, half480