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StarShipSofa No 342 Jay Lake

StarShipSofa No 342 Jay Lake

Coming up… Main fiction: “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay LakeI believe that all things eventually come to rest. Even light, though that’s not what they tell you in school. How do scientists know? A billi...

StarShipSofa · Tony C Smith

June 18, 201436m 36s

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Main fiction: “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay Lake

I believe that all things eventually come to rest. Even light, though that’s not what they tell you in school. How do scientists know? A billion billion years from now, even General Relativity might have been demoted to a mere Captain. Photons will sit around in little clusters of massless charge, bumping against one another like boats in the harbor at Kowloon.
The universe will be blue then, everything from one cosmic event horizon to the other the color of a summer sky.
This is what I tell myself as I paint the tiny shards spread before me. Huang’s men bring them to me to work with. We are creating value, that gangster and me. I make him even more immensely wealthy. Every morning that I wake up still alive is his gratuity to me in return.
It is a fair...

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