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Spacecraft
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Her belly was beginning to complain with hunger, and she had to imagine that the others were feeling the same. They were holding the bridge of the largest spacecraft humanity had ever built, trapped in the starless dark by an alien power they barely began to comprehend, but they were still constrained by the petty needs of flesh, and their collective blood sugar was getting pretty low.
”
― Abaddon’s Gate
― Abaddon’s Gate
“
The Eagle Has Landed
The airlock swings open -
Behold! A new world:
obsidian black sky
lit by the sun's
fierce glare.
Inch
Down the ladder -
The first man on the moon!*
Look!
The first footprint.
Listen!
The first word
splitting the still dead silence.
Dead dust
dead rock
dead black sky
A dead dead world.
Zombie in a moontrance I*
trip
stumble
fall
rise
before the slow dust settles.
Adrian Rumble
...more
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