Maybe Jackie would have an opinion on it. ” Poole watched the spiders toiling up their volcano, bits of our ship clutched in their huge claws. I recalled one hitting our gondola during their assault and falling away; perhaps this was that very casualty. He retreated ten feet or so and then slowly reached up to the nearest tree and snapped off a dead branch.
That was hardly a major feat of cognition, though; Tri-County General was where all the homeless as well as the uninsured ended up. Obviously there were problems at the Institute and in the city. Something is running through the trees, and nobody else sees it. ____, “Excellence,” Asimov’s, December.
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