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Nebular Camouflage
The human cargo carrier, T.S.S. Prospect, plies its way through an uninhabited system in the interior of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024). These routine runs can be easily automated, but some individuals enjoy the solitude and lack of social pressures … Continue reading
After the Nova
V528 Aquilae is the remnant of what was once a giant sun — actually two suns, one giant and a smaller hotter companion. Over a thousand years ago it exploded, consuming its inner planets and its companion as well. It … Continue reading
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What Are Little Worlds Made Of?
On the pleasant turquoise globe Amfibia [23 Librae 3] a chameleomorph who is either an enhanced sentient family pet or a human shape changer — one never knows, and it is impolite to ask — steps out for a wade … Continue reading
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The Listening Valleys
One of the native Bifurcathuria of the planet Ph(d-d-d)reem [HR 2643 Geminorum 5] receives the first positive artificial signal from its own version of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a series of prime numbers possibly from the dim G … Continue reading
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On the Hill We Viewed the Silence of the Valley
In this panorama of one of the great plains of Sundara (a.k.a. Pi Mensae 4) a world humans settle in the remote future, a pair of grid-linked clones, Shana and Anahs, are recording their explorations for a VR travelogue while … Continue reading
Indigo Knolls
One of the temperate continents of the Earth-like world Indigo (HR 2225 Canis Majoris 2) offers a panorama of arid rolling grasslands dotted here and there by strange hillocks. These structures are created by plankton-sized microorganisms working together in colonies … Continue reading
Leap of Faith
In a parallel universe where what we would call fantasy and magic prevail, a motley group of young daredevils discover the joys of a lowered gravity field surrounding a battlement tower.
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Oh Yeah?
In the distant future the humans take their disagreements with them out into the universe, though sometimes less violently than they had done when confined to their cradle world. Here a small shuttle from the Chamrosh (Kappa Ceti 3) colony … Continue reading
Suns Set
The non-ambulatory Bubblestalk natives of this world communicate with modulated bursts of infrared and would call their world something akin to “Propitiousness” if we could come close to translating the thought into English. Humans might call this world Alpha Tucanae … Continue reading
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Thryx in the Vinebrake
On the world Ik’k’ax (roughly translated as Underfeet, fifth world from the star the humans call 37 Geminorum), my friend, Thryx, returns from its daily monitoring of the hysteresis levels in the nutrient tubes on the wormvine vineyard where it … Continue reading