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The Long Darkscifi

The Long Dark

The Exodus has been under way for 127 years. You were born here, you will probably die here, and every festival, every school lesson and every countdown clock on the ship agrees that New Eden is 23 years ahead. Then an archive assignment puts you in front of a sealed door, and behind it is a survey correction filed in 2211 that nobody was ever supposed to read. The Council has known for four generations. They have not been steering nowhere. They have been steering somewhere much worse than the thing they promised, and they decided that 50,000 people could not survive being told.

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Seventeen Hoursscifi

Seventeen Hours

Orbital Station Prometheus has seventeen hours left. At midnight the coolant loop fails, the reactor goes, and eight hundred and forty-seven people stop existing. You have watched it from the observation lounge more times than you are willing to count, and every time, you open your eyes at 07:00 with your cheek on a cold console and the same bad coffee at your elbow. It is not an accident and it is not a bomb. Somebody aboard has scheduled it, with a valid authorisation code, and you have seventeen hours to work out whose code it is, why they think eight hundred people will make it to the pods, and why out of everyone on this station you are the one who remembers.

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First Wordsscifi

First Words

Three days ago the Koreth vessel stopped over Geneva and said one thing. The First Contact Directorate translated it in eleven hours and put the translation on every screen on Earth: seven days, then we decide. Since then the militaries have been moving and you have been in a domed room under the ship, working eighteen-hour shifts on a language with no tense, no articles and no word for a promise that lasts forever. You are the xenolinguist the Koreth answer to. You are also the only person in the building who has noticed that the transcript is shorter than the utterance it came from. Something is being cut out of what they say to us. Something is being cut out of what we say back. And the person who ordered it done has a reason he thinks is good.

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