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Now she said, “I’ve been thinking. He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Asimov’s Readers’ Award poll. ”The next four of five memories are variations on that conversation, punctuated with the heat and sweat of work, and the smell of seasons passing across the land. His phone rang, and glancing at the number, he killed the ring.

PART 2It was all light and dark for a long time. How could you tell? Michael had a sneaking suspicion he would have to pay for the ride one way or another. It looked like things were messed up everywhere. Seaweed stretched along the edge of the sluggish water, dark green, stinking.