The Distant Machine

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Chapter One "Notice to All Hands: The Charter is suspended pending review. All non-essential repairs are halted. Do not open parcels from Earth without a second signature." Esther Cranfield read the notice pinned to the airlock frame, the paper yellowed and brittle from decades of recycled air. She was thirty, a welder on the upper deck, and her hands still smelled of ozone and rust. The...

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