Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers

Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers

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Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers by Cory Doctorow

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to help, just say so. But stop trying to dissuade me." She slammed the stylus down. "Are you in or out?"

"I'm in," I said. "I'm in."

"Then get dressed," she said.

I was already dressed. I said so.

"Put on Roman's armor. We need to be on even footing with Osborne if we're going to catch him, and that stuff won't fit me."

"What about Roman?"

"He'll be back," she said. "We have his d-hopper."

* * *

What did I call it? "Outlandish technocrat armor?" Maybe from the outside. But once I was inside, man, I was a god. I walked on seven-league boots, boots that would let me jump as high as the treetops. My vision extended down to the infrared and up into the ultraviolet and further up into the electromagnetic, so that I could see the chemically-encoded housenet signals traversing the root-systems that the houses all tied into, the fingers of polarized light lengthening as the sun dipped to the west. My hearing was acute as a rabbit's, the wind's soughing and the

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An entertaining, if at times baffling, short story of a couple in an alternate dimension/reality whose homes keep being damaged (or even killed) by other dimensional cops and robbers popping into existence and shooting the places up.

Steps are taken to end the invasions. Some people will hate the story, but it was original.