{"id":1327,"date":"2026-01-03T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-fubar-suit-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:13","slug":"the-fubar-suit-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-fubar-suit-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fubar Suit – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally published in Interzone<\/i><\/b> 123, September 1997<\/b><\/p>\n

I know I’m still lying here in the regolith, on this dumb little misshapen asteroid, inside my fubar suit. I know nobody’s come to save me. Because I’m still here, right? But I can’t see, hear, feel a damn thing. <\/p>\n

Although I sometimes think I can. <\/p>\n

I’m going stir-crazy, inside my own head. <\/p>\n

I know they’re coming to kill me, though. The little guys<\/i>. The nems told me that much. <\/p>\n

So I have a decision to make. <\/p>\n

She drifted in blue warmth, her thoughts dissolving. <\/p>\n

… Consciousness burst in on her, dark and dry, dispelling the fug of her prenatal dream. She gasped and coughed, expelling fluid from her lungs. <\/p>\n

She was turned around, by huge, confident hands. She was held before a looming face, smiling, wet. Her mother. <\/p>\n

There were people all around, naked, thin, anxious. Even so, they smiled at this new birth. <\/p>\n

Her eyes were clearing quickly. She – they – were in some kind of huge hall, a vast cylindrical space. The roof, far above, was clear, and some kind of light moved beyond it. There was water in the base of the hall, a great trapped river of it, dense with green. The people were clustered at the edge of the water, on a smooth, sloping beach. Children were playing in the water, which lapped gently against the walls. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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