Orlova had one eye on the landscape ahead, and another on the autonav as she homed in on the coordinates of the meeting point. “Where are we going?” Durman asked. “We’ll know when we get there.” “Wonderful,” he replied. “Doesn’t a condemned man get a last request?” She turned to him, sharply...
a voice said, shaking her as she lay in her bed. She blinked twice and looked up to see Nelyubov standing over her, another figure – President Newton – behind him. “Not often I get woken up in the middle of the night by the President,” she mumbled as she rubbed her eyes. “What’s going on?” “All...
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Harper said, smashing her hands against the keyboard. “I can’t hack a network that doesn’t exist. They’ve broken every connection I can think of.” Logan crouched against the wall, shaking his head, “We’ve got to get through. That’s the only place that has the information we’re looking for.” “Wh...
Early science fiction is littered with explorations of dry, barren Mars, or brave adventurers battling the jungles of Venus. We now know these depictions of the planets for the fantasies they are, as one unmanned probe after another stripped layers of hope from our dreams of other planets close t...