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Why don't trees get tired holding their limbs out for a hundred
years? Why can a single African Violet leaf produce a dozen
identical new plants? Any why don't plants bleed to death when
their leaves fall off naturally? Descriptions of the plant parts
too small to see without magnification provide the answers. The
plant's cells and their several specialised working subunits are
examined in addition to chemical traits like colour, scent, and the
hormonal effects that turn leaves toward the light and allow other
adaptations to the surroundings.
Bodybuilder Max Engler joins inventor Oscar Digitarius to develop a
business in which clients pay to use a special high-tech system
involving earplugs to tune into and share a hard-body like Engler's
actual sensations during his gym workouts. The pair soon find that
the system in fact gives the operator some control over the
hard-body's actions - with some clients able to make him do what he
definitely doesn't want to. As he refines the system, the inventor
builds in a way for the hard-body to reverse things and take
control of the client's actions in order to protect himself. They
also learn that the one being operated can reproduce even
complicated learned and polished motor skill sequences of the
operator without practice while they are connected by the earplug
system - and repeat those moves later from memory in much the same
form. Engler finds himself in trouble with the local Mob who demand
he pay his cousin's gambling debts. The new business and Engler's
romance are complicated even more when the mobsters suspect he
might have seen a murder and "just in case" must be permanently
silenced. But not before they test whether by renting him through
his business they can use his brawn to intimidate people they want
to have that effect on without doing it themselves. This ultimately
leads to a climax in a warehouse where Engler and several allies
use the earplug devices to share one another's special skills -
including skateboarding, some gymnastic, moves and the Argentine
Tango - against the marauding mobsters.
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