Words&Dirt

“Restoria was the part of Contact charged with taking care of hegemonising swarm outbreaks, when––by accident or design––a set of self-replicating entities ran out of control somewhere and started trying to turn the totality of the galaxy’s matter into nothing but copies of themselves.  It was a problem as old as life in the galaxy […]

“‘You don’t have to go back, Lededje,’ Sensia said gently.  ‘You could stay here, make a new life in the Culture.’ Lededje used the heels of her hands to dry round her eyes.  ‘You know, for almost as long as I can remember that was the one thing I wanted?’ she said.  She glanced at […]