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 Magazine fiction Pointing at the MoonThe Om’s wormholes might offer humanity the stars. Could the wisdom of an old man’s fading mind open a pathway blocked to science?  For the Love of JazzSeeing nearly three metres of multi-jointed legs and squat metal body towering in front of him, Holden wondered if a lion might not be preferable.  WormwordsIf the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, how many bits does it take to remake a man?  Family valuesPolitics is a game for experts, even on a wildly alien world, but sometimes charm and audacity can more than make up for a lack of experience.  Ganymede DreamsGanymede swings around giant Jupiter like a ball on a million kilometres of string – once for every seven days on Earth. Far away in black space, the protective ecosphere of that blue world is all but chewed away, soaked in man-made toxins.  For Solo Cello, op.12Mutilated in an accident, he faced a terrible choice - give up his music forever or raise a child he couldn't help but resent.  FoundlingThe charred-looking shapes reminded her of something, an object from the past. Um-brella? Surely no one would ever again make such an elaborate, frivolous object.  Not AloneI'd been waking in the middle of the night, paralysed with terror, wondering if anybody could be sure of anything at all, thinking that maybe there was nothing else except us and the world and the rest of space, that there was no meaning to any of it.  Street of the DeadA bright flare of silver dazzled Maree: a small shack entirely covered in silver discs.  EmpathyOne night, Jules is confronted by unpleasant strangers with guns. She doesn't like them at all.  The Many-Body ProblemA few months short of final exams, Alistair was expelled as an irredeemable nuisance. But that was not the end of him.  Angel of LightSometimes the discarded relics from a more permissive age found in the basement can intrigue the most unusual of customers. 
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