How did you... pass the time?' Sunday asked. 'You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?' 'We had a different form of chinging,' Eunice said. 'An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it reading.

Blue Remembered Earth (ed. Hachette UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9780575088313