CLOSE ON THE CONSOLE, and this is the frame the room was built from. His hands rest on two of the three trackballs, the cloak falls across the edge of the picture with its stars and ringed planets, and the hologram of the body stands in the air above the panel: skeleton, muscle and organs hanging slightly apart from one another, thin readouts floating free at different depths. Everything is made of light and nothing is framed. THE PANEL IS BIG AND ALMOST EMPTY, which says he is in command far better than a wall of switches ever did.

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