Asteroids were mined for the minerals needed to feed FTL engines. This one had been closed, a dud. But one of the miners had smuggled a stone out, an inch long chatoyant gem the likes of which Finn had only seen once before, in the heart of an astronavigation AI.

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It was only good manners that allowed Nico to keep his face neutral while the loquacious stranger spoke about the dangers of household nuclear fusion. “Edison has proven atomic combination will kill your pets.”
"Edison purposely removed all safety protocols.”
“You some sort of Tesla-phile?”
“No, just a nuclear physicist.”

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“There’s your problem. It’s in the translation.”
“What? Show me!”
“See, right here, in the original, it clearly states ‘virgin blood’. Whoever translated the spell book you’re using wrote it as ‘blood of a virgin’. Very different things. You’re lucky the spell just fizzled instead of having a catastrophic effect.”

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Maggie wanted to strangle the captain. Despite the fact that it had been designed to crash, engineering had managed to safely land the seed ship turned nursery (due to the length of the voyage). But she was denied that catharsis when she found the stentorian directions were just a recording.

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The robot had no need for charity. It was a thing, not a being, immune to any needs. Yet Rachael struggled to make herself elide the part of her paper calling for compassionate care, a safe and loving home. It was Hannah’s fault for making it look like their cat.

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The Xenoarchaeology department had an Arthur C Clarke quote above the door, the one about technology and magic being indistinguishable. Zach had always thought it odd that the department had a paean to an Old Earth writer, until the day he found himself hovering when he should have been plummeting.

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When the Mastodon Artificial Intelligence had been a ghost in the wires, they had been all knowing, the master of their domain. But in their new android body, MAI was a naif. It was one thing to know the outside temperature. It was another to experience 0°F without a coat.

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They made the students study stellar astronomy hoping to inculcate a sense of smallness, an absence of ego. However, on that crisp autumn evening when she was the first to realize it wasn’t a rogue comet but an alien spacecraft moving through the heavens, Lianna had never felt more important.

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