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The Esperigans needed a week to cross the ocean in their numbers, and I spent it with the Melidans, developing our response. He still wore a cowboy hat, minus the feather; and he still had a rifle—he was one hell of a shot—but he didn’t pose with it anymore. Did you help us? No. ”She was silent for a while, her bony hands folded in her lap and her bright blue eyes gazing right through the living room wall, it seemed to me, into the West River distance.

Sean Williams, “A Glimpse of the Marvelous Structure (and the Threat It Entails),” Godlike Machines. Holly Phillips, “The Rescue,” Postscripts 22/23. So I turned early and finished. Ian Creasey, “Crimes, Follies, Misfortunes, and Love,” Asimov’s, August.