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Nightfall by Charles Stross Charles
Stross
A synthetic gemstone the size of a Coke can falls through silent
lives in
darkness. The night is quiet as the grave, colder than midwinter on
Edinbur
Pluto. Gossamer sails as fine as soap bubbles droop, the gust of
gh,
sapphire laser light that inflated them long since darkened; ancient
Scotland
starlight picks out the outline of a huge planet-like body beneath the
, where
jewel-and-cobweb corpse of the starwhisp.
he
destroys
Eight years have passed since the good ship Field Circus slipped
laptop
into close orbit around the frigid brown dwarf Hyundai +4904/-56.
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Five years have gone by since the launch lasers of the Ring
ds for a
Imperium shut down without warning, stranding the light sail
living.
powered craft three light years from home. There has been no
The first
response from the router, the strange alien artifact in orbit around
story in
the brown dwarf, since the crew of the starwhisp uploaded
this
themselves through its strange quantum entanglement interface for
series,
transmission to whatever alien network it connects to. In fact,
"Lobster
nothing happens; nothing save the slow trickle of seconds, as a
s" (June
watchdog timer counts down the moments remaining until it is due to
2001),
resurrect stored snapshots of the crew, on the assumption that their
was
uploaded copies are beyond help.
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Meanwhile, outside the light cone? d for the