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james_davis_nicollFrom Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled . . . (Michael Swanwick)
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Two survivors - one human, one alien - flee the destruction of an alien city and near total slaughter of its inhabitants. Survival and the alien's goals depend on cooperation but the alien has good reason not to trust the human.
The economic discussions seemed a bit heavy handed.
It's interesting how often social insects turn up as a model for aliens in SF, something menacing, here mostly just odd.
First published in Asimov’s, February 2008.
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The text version can be found here.
Read by Kate Baker
Two survivors - one human, one alien - flee the destruction of an alien city and near total slaughter of its inhabitants. Survival and the alien's goals depend on cooperation but the alien has good reason not to trust the human.
The economic discussions seemed a bit heavy handed.
It's interesting how often social insects turn up as a model for aliens in SF, something menacing, here mostly just odd.
First published in Asimov’s, February 2008.
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Date: 2014-04-05 04:54 am (UTC)