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Authors: Gardner Dozois

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Often Atkins, if found in some archive or ancient military thought-space, is revived and plied with questions, or asked to re-create the circumstances of the tale of the end of the Seventh Mental Structure. For the most part, Atkins does not speak of it.

The long war with the Silence is over, and the dreadful deeds he did, he does not care to revisit. Man-shaped forms, he has but few. With these, on some stylized Earth-replica planet somewhere, he tends to his apple orchard, cleans and practices with his weapons, or sleeps under the mountain, awaiting the next war.

ALSO EDITED BY GARDNER DOZOIS
AND JONATHAN STRAHAN

The New Space Opera

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Cover design by James L. Iacobelli

Cover illustration by Stephan Martiniere

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

“
Utriusque Cosmi
” by Robert Charles Wilson. Copyright Â© 2009 by Robert Charles Wilson.

“The Tale of the
Wicked
” by John Scalzi. Copyright Â© 2009 by John Scalzi.

THE NEW SPACE OPERA
2. Copyright Â© 2009 by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-189150-2

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