Fiction

• Glacier!

  They arrived when the planet was warm, the nearest glaciers delimited by the polar circles and high altitudes. Near the heart of the largest continent, where all the rivers flow to and all the seas meet, the city Laurence was founded. On a plain outside the city, the Laurentides laid down the runways and put…

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• The Tree of Knowledge

  They were standing near the middle of the garden, in a grassy lane lined by two rows of peach trees. Blackberry bushes made a hedge along either row, with a gap between every fifth tree allowing access to the rest of the garden. The lane stretched from the Tree of Knowledge on the one hand…

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• For the Love of Akcia

  Cold rocky asteroids like a string of dull pearls spun in a half-circle around their sun. Here and there were pinpricks of light: pockets of life and warmth protected against the bitter cold. Voidships darted in and out among the driftbergs, carrying commerce between the far-flung settlements. Chachery Driftberg formed a binary system with Arenberg,…

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