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For Charles, sitting and talking and wrangling

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MAXIMUM LIGHT
Copyright ┬й 1998 by Nancy Kress
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
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Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue m New York, NY 10010
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ISBN: 0-812-54037-9 .
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 97-29850
First edition: January 1998
First mass market edition: January 1999
Printed in the United States of America 0987654321




For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war.
тАФRudyard Kipling


The gods
Visit the sins, of the fathers upon the children.
тАФEuripides



MAXIMUM LIGHT
 1
SHANA WALDERS
By the time they truck us to the staging area, which is the parking lot of some old church, the train has been
burning for two days. It's one of those new Korean maglevs that isn't supposed to derail ever, no matter
what, but there it is in some D.C. suburb, burning like a son-of-a-bitch. Carrying some sort of fuel canisters;
somebody says that it could burn for a week if the scientist-types don't figure out what to do. Which I guess
they haven't, because the area is evacuated and glow-marked, and we jump off the truck a couple thousand
feet away from the wreck. Other trucks are bringing in civvies, some of them crying.
"You have entered an area electronically cordoned by the United States Army," the truck is saying over
and over. "Unless you are authorized to be in this area, turn around immediately and leave. You have
entered an area electronicallyтАФ" My NS sergeant reaches into the cab and slaps it off. She goes to report
in to a regular-army sergeant, so I sort of slouch over to a soldier and say, "On. What we got?"