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“The band marched past, bright with scarves and ribbon skirts, batons twirling between instruments. A whole play of sound and motion, shaped by Earth’s gravity, by the exact characteristics of our atmosphere.”

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“Three-thousand species preserved to make a predictable and controllable ecology, and how many left behind? Somewhere on those sacrificial pyres they must have left equivalents of periwinkle and firefly and otter and iguana, intricate curves of coastline and river and half-melted glacier, the Marianas Trench and Mauna Kea.”

“A forest of vines and machinery spread around me. Greenery sprouted flashes of metal. Consoles poked from bright flowers. Something flitted in the shadows of the ceiling, and the floor grew soft moss.”

“The creature—alien—person, that had to be the right word, stepped lightly down the side of the palace and into the rock and scrub of our world.”