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”I squirmed against him in mock outrage, giggling. Kosonen was surprised how sharp the feeling of loss was, even now. Mona looked awed almost to fear when I showed up with the dog, but she smiled and uncovered the dinner I’d left waiting. (From the transcript of Shooting the Albatross: The women of the Aurora Space Program, a film by Anita Schlei

While they hadn’t seen a dragon for a while, Michael didn’t want to take any chances. For years, 78 mines sold two percent of the dysprosium they dug up, and stockpiled the rest—as much as the Confederación could muster from two dozen other planets. She thought of his tired eyes, his twisted fingers, of how kind he was really, especially when delivering bad news. “Didn’t they say they’d leave a saucepan in … oh, there it is.