Precious Mental (Novella)

by Robert Reed

Series: Pamir (sometime after "Aeon's Child", while living in hiding), The Great Ship (novella - 21, sometime during main phase of galactic voyage)

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capiam1234 | Aug 21, 2013 |

Part of the Great Ship series, this novella is a meditation on the meaning of life, in a world where most people are immortal. There are some interesting ideas here, many of the sensawonda kind, but I'm not sure I know what happened in the story or why people were doing what they were doing. (

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The Great Ship (novella - 21, sometime during main phase of galactic voyage)

Pamir (sometime after "Aeon's Child", while living in hiding)

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Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 37, No. 6 [June 2013] by Sheila Williams

Space Opera by Rich Horton

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

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The man came to Port Beta carrying an interesting life.

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The mysterious human showed them nothing. He didn't brace for war or smile at his victory. The milky water from a glacier was warmer and far more impatient.

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