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- Illegal pheromone emitters in a high-end callgirl.
- A vast warehouse of meat-growing vats and a vat-grown overseer who has never been outside.
- The research vessel of a half-mad oceanographer with gill implants.
- The public unveiling of a new model of "near-sentient" pleasure robot, its proud creator not knowing he has succeeded beyond what he intended.
- A heavily tattooed Yakuza, both shrewd and full of hate.