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Melanie
…knees–making their last, frantic revisions before the competitive exams. “Three weeks left,” Richard says, tapping his pen against a mathematical formula. “Yeah,” Erwan says. He’s staring at the other students–all shining, all gorged with light: the light of numbers and curves, the endless dance of the formulas that rule the world. And, as it always does, his gaze fastens on Mélanie….
The Shipmaker
Ships were living, breathing beings. Dac Kien had known this even before she’d reached the engineering habitat, even before she’d seen the great mass in orbit outside, being slowly assembled by the bots. Her ancestors had once carved jade, in the bygone days of the Lê Dynasty on Old Earth: not hacking the green blocks into the shape they wanted, but rather whittling down the stone until its true nature was revealed. And as with jade, so with ship…
Scattered Along the River of Heaven
…eaven So tell me Is it fitting that I spend my days here A guest in those dark, forlorn halls? # This is the first poem Xu Anshi gave to us; the first memory she shared with us for safekeeping. It is the first one that she composed in High Mheng—which had been and remains a debased language, a blend between that of the San-Tay foreigners, and that of the Mheng, Anshi’s own people. Shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2012….
The Heartless Light of Stars
…osenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012. speed of light: a physical constant denoting the speed of light in a vacuum, important in many areas of physics, and valued at 299,792,458 meters per second. It is the maximum speed at which all energy, matter, and information in the universe can travel–symbol c, postulated in Einstein’s special theory of relativity in 1905 AD. Vu had never been able to speak to Thuy. Even when they were children, he’d had go…
The Princess of the Perfume River
…sound of his flute, waiting to be taken away from the palace. Except that Thien was the princess, the captive one–if the city of Hue could be a tower, and guiding tourists through the ruins of the Citadel be compared to reading books and embroidering silk cloth for ceremonies….
Worlds like a Hundred Thousand Pearls
…d Benjamin Rosenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012 Exponential: the transcendental number that is the base of Napierian or natural logarithms, approximately equal to 2.71828. The number also has applications in probability theory–symbol e, first referenced in work by John Napier in 1618 AD. # Shall I tell you a story? Not the Buddhist fables in the sutras, about kings and their sons–the cryptic wisdom you stopped believing when war stole your husba…
Immersion
…mory that has ceased to have any meaning. Winner, Locus Award, 2012 Winner, Nebula Award, 2012 Shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2012 Shortlisted for a Hugo Award, 2012 Shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Association Award, 2012…
Ship’s Brother
…A Xuya universe story. You never liked your sister. I know you tried your best; that you would stay awake at night thinking on filial piety and family duty; praying to your ancestors and the bodhisattva Quan Am to find strength; but that it would always come back to that core of dark thoughts within you, that fundamental fright you carried with you like a yin shadow in your heart….
