Give the Family My Love
ShortStory 5,325 words Recommended by 8 award/anthology sources
The aliens invited one human to their library 32.5 light-years away, and Hazel hopes to find lost research that might still save the Earth from final ecological collapse. If she can get in, that is.
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.