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North of St. “It’s just a copy. “This is Earthport. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Gateways, Science Fiction Age, The Infinite Matrix,

* * *They didn’t say anything as Jackie walked slowly down behind the reptile house. She stared at the surgeon till he moved aside. “Uncooperative. If the System’s CHON life arose first on Earth or Mars, it might easily have drifted here and seeded in a crater lake, and followed a different evolutionary strategy.