Kij Johnson, “Names for Water,” Asimov’s, October/November. “Why don’t you just leave us?”Because then I would have no single happy place. But I was haunted by the hills of Standing Rock; and he was haunted by Red Lake’s forests; and we were both haunted by our relatives and ancestors. Most, if not all, were very simple machines, tailored to one specific function.
Life is commonplace. He found Clausen alone, washing dirty coffee cups in a side-room of the canteen. “Each of these platforms holds maybe ten thousand sleepers, give or take. She watched him for a moment, wondering how long he had been working without real sleep, wondering if it was the patient in front of him he was operating on, or one that existed only in his dreams.
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