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Going Deep (novel)
"Going Deep" is a 2009 short story written by [|James Patrick Kelly]

Read the Novel here
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0906/goingdeep.shtml

Plot
Mariska is your stereo-typical teen-aged girl in the future who got caught by coming [|coming of age]. She is nagged every morning by her smart room. Like most teenage girls she is uncomfortable having serious talks with her father. She opens her mind(literally) when she is around her boyfriend Jak. So even though she lives on the Moon and wishes people would treat her more as a grown-up, she soon discovers that big decisions can force a person to take drastic actions.

Notable Inventions
Mindfeeds- Are like bloggers inside your head. Anyone can make them but not all of them are screened. Daddy Al references that only the school feeds, news feeds, or dream feeds have been screened for viruses.

Fingernail communicators- Are a speculative evolution for cell phones to achieve in the near future.

Smart room- Is Mariska's bedroom which talks to her as a child because it was programed by her mother years ago. We can speculate that it is possible to have this technology based off current invention like apples Siri

wormhole travel- Spacers travel through wormholes to explore new planets.

genetic hibernation- People were genetically modified to handle space travel lifestyle better by hibernating for 3 years.

aquablade bodysuit- A futuristic swimsuit

Clone- She is a clone of her mother Volochkova