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Novelette 8,211 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Above the ship’s clearalloy cupola loomed Io, a pimpled canvas of desert camo so close Katy imagined she could smell its sulfurous plumes. Ahead, ocher bands slashed the sunlit limb of Jupiter like mud on a bloody scythe. Against this backdrop, gleaming in the light, hung the impactor, ready to accelerate down into the Jovian night."
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