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 Magazine fiction Under The Shouting SkySaturn hung overhead, a great pastel yellow ball. It took a special kind of imagination to see the planet for what it really was.  EchoesIn quantum reality, all possible worlds are piled on top of each other. Suppose an experimental quantum communicator starts to jumble those 'realities' together...  Fortunes of SoldiersTwo week’s pay for one night’s work, baby-sitting a pampered asteroid heiress. How hard could it be?  Defence of the RealmWar can divide a man from his son, or bring a son to an understanding of his alienated father - even when the war is fought against real aliens.  The Broken HourglassZane's beloved Emily was nine years dead. Could this strange book help him change that bitter past and build a different future? _0.jpg "Done!") Done!Bob tried to reason with himself. Nothing disastrous would happen if he dried his nose before his brow. Nothing, except the sickening lurch of the world losing its contours.  Letting GoThe Hole was two metres wide, stretching from Mare Serenitatis straight down to the core. Big Betsy was chewing one long tunnel through lunar rock, nearly 7,000km from one side of the Moon to the other.  DeliveryCallisa walked through a crypt. Dead children were wrapped in their parents' arms. She knew what she must do.  LoopBeing ‘born again’ and having the opportunity to live your life all over again sounds like a great idea – until it actually happens.  A Place to Call HomeHome is where the heart is, even when you don't have a heart - and you've been uploaded into a simulation more real than life itself.  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? 
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