What's Up Tiger Lily? - a novelette by Paul Di Filippo

(((This thing is amazing. It just sort of whirls and tumbles and spews on and on and on. It's like Bester or Sheckley, it's just a little effervescent head-bursting sci-fi beast. "Cricket Licklider." Oh yeah. Of course she'd be named "Cricket Licklider." What else?)))

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