The Distant Machine

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Why does a machine hum at 440Hz when it is not plugged in? Mildred Muncy held the brass astrolabe in her left hand, the weight of it pressing a white crescent into her palm, while the wind outside the reclaim dome tore at the washing on the line. She was forty-two of NineElm Crossing, a terraforming seed-pilot with a berth mortgage that ate half her ration, and the object in her hand was the...

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