Preserved in Amber
Novelette 9,661 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The taxi from Guiyang Airport passed through long tunnels with curved white crescents every fifty or so meters along. It was simply some reflective material, but the bright curves leading her off into the distance through the darkness of the tunnel made her think of an Einstein-Rosen bridge, a tunnel through space-time. Is this what it will be like? Niu Yi thought..."
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.