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Analog 2004-06 — Science Fiction: The Best of 2004
Stephen Baxter lives in Buckinghamshire in the British Midlands and has been a full-time writer since 1995.
His first stories appeared in Interzone in the late ’80s and he has subsequently published twenty novels (two in collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke and five for younger readers), three collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books. He has won the Philip K Dick, John W.
Campbell Memorial, British Science Fiction Association, Kurd Lasswitz, Seiun, Locus, and Sidewise awards. His latest novel, Exultant, moves his new “Destiny’s Children” series decisively into the far future of his sprawling “Xeelee” future history. Upcoming is final “Destiny’s Children” novel, Transcendent and Sunstorm, a new novel with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. His story
“Breeding Ground” was reprinted in Science Fiction: Best of 2003.
The story that follows tells a tale of love distorted by social expectation in a world where time itself is distorted.
The funerary procession drew up in the courtyard of the great House. The blueshifted light of Old Earth’s sky washed coldly down over the shuffling people, and through a screen of bubbling clouds Peri glimpsed stars sailing indifferently by.
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