"The resort is more comfortable than the Reaches, that's for certain. And the technology..." His face lit up. "It's amazing. Back home, aside from some scavenged Votan tech, I haven't seen anything like this, not even in New York."

He pointed to her music.

"People have managed to bring back records and record players. But I remember when I was a child, there was i...music. Something like that. You could keep whole collections, hundreds of albums, in a tiny portable computer. We lost all that in the war. Coming here feels a bit like returning to the past. Not that we had spawners and androids, but technology. Civilization. It's what humanity used to have."