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 Fiction A Few Good MenHow very different things would have been today if the history of science had taken a slightly different path.  Time Traveling: A Quick Reference GuideYou've always wanted to do it. Your friends have all tried it. Somehow, though, the idea of time travel still makes you nervous.  Going Somewhere ElseWhy would you sign up for a space mission that never returns? Maybe after a while, you run out of places on Earth that are somewhere else from where you've already been.  Gas GiantThe newspapers went wild when a space probe showed up anomalies near Jupiter, but the full implications would not become apparent for years to come.  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.  The Dead Man's ChildAs her father's star-polished bones rattle in their grave-drawer, Marguerite resolves to track him down.  Apollo's BreathWell travelled, widely read, Pausinias was sure of man's superiority over beasts and women. He just needed a woman in a temple to confirm it for him.  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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