* Robert Reed's "Weapons of Discretion" (short story, science fiction)

"First Born" - first sentients of early universe & now with god-like powers - exploit & create disasters all over to perform computations using explosions as their hot high-energy computers!

In this story, we will see one blast a bus full of human passengers to create such a computer to write a poem!

Fact sheet.

First published: Helix, #8 (Spring 2008).
Rating: C
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Note: Why is this post so short?