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Bruggil's Bride by ROBERT F. YOUNG - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70217/pg70217-images.html

 She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten Flagstad, and her name was Isolde.

 

German was a dead language by 2241 in any but the most esoteric sense, and Vanderzee was generations removed from his native tongue

 When an Idwandanan grew too old, he or she was cooked and eaten. If he or she became a detriment to the tribe because of illness or accident, he or she was also cooked and eaten. So it always was, so should ever be. There was only one god, and he was Bruggil, the giant who lived in the fire mountain and whose fiery breath you could sometimes see when he went into a tantrum.

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