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Kaya runs up to her, puts his hand on her back. “Hey, are you all right?”

She nods. “Gah,” she says. “Gakk.”

“Good! That was a big set!” He runs back out.

Sun beats on her back, the wet strand gleams. Everything is sparking and glary, too bright to look at. A broken wave rushes up the strand, stops, leaves a line of foam. Big slab of water sheets back down the slope at her, crashes into her wrists and knees, sinks her farther into wet sand. Bubbling water swirls the sand under her to the sea, black flecks forming V patterns in tumbling blond grains, sluicing new deltas right before her eyes. Delta v’s, she thinks, now those are delta v’s. What a world. She lets her head down and kisses the sand.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks this time to:

Terry Bisson, Michael Blumlein, Ron Drummond, Laurie Glover, Olympios Katsiaouni, James Leach, Beth Meacham, Lisa Nowell, Christopher Palmer, Mark Schwartz, Francis Spufford, Sharon Strauss, Ken Wark.

At NASA/Ames, thanks also to Harry Jones, Larry Lemke, Creon Levitt, John Rask, Carol Stoker, and especially Chris McKay, who has been helping me with space questions now for over twenty years.

A special thanks to Carter Scholz.

Also by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Icehenge

THREE CALIFORNIAS

The Wild Shore

The Gold Coast

Pacific Edge

The Planet on the Table

Remaking History

Escape from Kathmandu

A Short, Sharp Shock

THE MARS TRILOGY

Red Mars

Green Mars

Blue Mars

The Martians

Antarctica

The Years of Rice and Salt

SCIENCE IN THE CAPITAL

Forty Signs of Rain

Fifty Degrees Below

Sixty Days and Counting

Galileo’s Dream

2312

Shaman

Aurora

COPYRIGHTS

“The City” from Justine by Lawrence Durrell, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of Lawrence Durrell, copyright © The Estate of Lawrence Durrell, 1969

Extract from “The City” from Justine by Lawrence Durrell, © Estate of Lawrence Durrell and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd

“Simplicity” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

“Tyrannies” by William Bronk © The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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