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1) Big Six
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Commander Richard Peacock paced to-and-fro inside Lunar Base One's operations dome. Gone was the usual banter and work-related conversations.
Status screens and console maps were a sea of red and flashing alerts. The logs showed all satellite links had gone offline one after the other in the previous twenty-four hours.
He needed answers fast.
(Opening lines from 'Big Six'.)
This science fiction collection contains six short stories.
The title...
2) Exhalation
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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
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