Mephista Recounts Her Past Lives, or Nanotechnology

Newsflash, Missus—machines have been invented to invent machines. I know you depend on me to make your name.   But before you plucked me canopic, I peddled atoms at the linear accelerator; I kept myself in penny dreadfuls by importing diction illegally. After fencing with Herr Doctor Faustus, after purely scientific revelations, I came to with […]