\parBarr shrugged unconcernedly. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2010. His most recent books are another collection, Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities, and, just released, a poetry collection, Iron Angels. The shift, so near a planetary mass, meant unconsciousness for Barr and a fearful haze of pain for Devers, but light-years further, space above them was clear.
The chief suddenly had no voice. He will be pleased to see you, I have no doubt, but Iwould not call him a goat to his face. I like to feel you there. Nearly as large as earth, it was a vast balloon composed of vacuum-filled chambers and nonaqueous species.
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