Wanderer

[close] Here’s my You Tube transcript:

Hi
I write science fiction
That’s often a literature of the future
The future
What is the future?
It’s you looking at me who recorded this in the past
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So this clip is human archaeology
And as for this place…
Something for future eyes to know, or guess
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In a way I see through your eyes
Who could you be?
I won’t second guess
human archaeology is enough for me
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Now this … is SF,
It’s also a literature of the past
How?
That’s where we begin

Long, long ago, there was war in the heart of the galaxy. The core stars were ripped apart by the fury of that conflict. Lucky is a survivor from it; she is lucky to even exist. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people.
War separates the victors from the losers. The victors survive and the losers are crushed from existence and from memory. To go home would have been death, so Lucky fled. She programmed her ship, the Expedient, to take her away from the galac