The Sloppy Mathematics of Half-Ghosts

Charles Payseur Strange Horizons 10/07/19 2019

ShortStory 5,827 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

A half-ghost gets a premonition that the Emperor has died, and his ghost ship flies off to Homeworld because whoever gets the Emperor’s ghost first gets free wishes.

Space Opera Queer Identity Whimsical

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