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What seems to be a woman meets what seems to be a man. The future of the world is at stake.
"Her voice is built from enthusiasm and proud ignorance. Admitting she knows almost nothing about her huge wonderful blue world, the creature nonetheless works hard to illuminate everything that she does know. Her life story. She mentions parents sitting in a distant room right now, eating their breakfast. She talks about her two years of college and how she's thinking about returning soon, finishing that degree. She mentions a husband who loved her but they couldn't make it work, so sad. But not so sad, because if she was married and happy enough, then she wouldn't have met me and can she tell her friends about me? 'I mean, if that kind of thing is allowed.'"
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred stories, and a Hugo Award winner.
Genre: Science Fiction
"Her voice is built from enthusiasm and proud ignorance. Admitting she knows almost nothing about her huge wonderful blue world, the creature nonetheless works hard to illuminate everything that she does know. Her life story. She mentions parents sitting in a distant room right now, eating their breakfast. She talks about her two years of college and how she's thinking about returning soon, finishing that degree. She mentions a husband who loved her but they couldn't make it work, so sad. But not so sad, because if she was married and happy enough, then she wouldn't have met me and can she tell her friends about me? 'I mean, if that kind of thing is allowed.'"
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred stories, and a Hugo Award winner.
Genre: Science Fiction
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