"A few hours before the ceasefire was scheduled to start, Captain Jarrell Dresdin and I dropped from low orbit on Aine’s night side, tasked with the final double-check. An armored dropsuit wasn’t enough to quell the terror of atmospheric entry, with only a...
Frank Wu
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"Tethered to the main cluster, placidly I float in the lazy currents. Softly, gently, a colony-mate brushes against me. Our membranes touch briefly and fuse. Electricity. Instinctively, I extend a single pseudopod toward my neighbor. The texture I feel is...
"Instead of indulging in the festivities, I spent the evening evading Lamprecht, while Herschel evaded me. I had come to Bath not just to soak my body in healing waters, but to bathe my mind in new thoughts, to browse with the great William Herschel at the...