Becky Chambers

Йоана Гацова

Някъде из пренаселеното небе екипажът на кораб за създаване на космически тунели скача от планета на планета на път към най-значимия пробив на живота си. В мащаба на Вселената човечеството е незначителен вид, а един раздрънкан строителен кораб е едва петънце на звездната карта, но всички пътешествия оставят своя белег и дори най-обикновените хора имат истории, които си струва да споделят.

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Joana

How is it possible that when meeting our galactic neighbours for the first time, we are all instantly reminded of creatures back home or in some cases, of ourselves?

He was not a prisoner of those memories. He was their warden.

I cannot pretend that the war never happened, but I stopped fighting it long ago. I did not start that war. It should never have been mine to fight. 

betty

She knew what feeds he’d be checking and it made her want to hug him. Not a quick, stiff Human hug — a long hug, the kind you give to friends when you know something's bothering them. But she'd learned long ago that those kind of embraces just didn't happen platonically among Humans. It was one of the many social instincts she'd learned to temper.

You ask good questions. Like a good heretic. 

She took inventory of her body. She felt her breath, her blood, the ties binding all together. Every piece, down to the last atom, had been made out there flung through the open in a moment of violence, until they had swirled round and round, churning and coalescing, becoming heavy, weighing each other down. But not any more, The pieces were floating free now. They had returned home. 

Annabelle Gauthier

There was nothing in the universe that could last forever. Not stars. Not matter. Nothing.

The razor cut. Their wrist ached. The sky roiled, unseen.

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