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The Years Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois, A thought provoking tale of a bunch of virtual people abord a probe that has seemingly been abandoned by earth as it careens across the galaxy.
Their main drive was disabled many years ago, The
"crew" are copies of human experts in disparate fields, but now have morale problems and no longer interact, having mostly all disappeared into their own private virtual worlds.
Then someone suggests that they all meet to discuss their future life options, amp "We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolutionary peers, "or we will assuredly all hang separately.
" This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the in a crippled and outofcontrol ship, your shipmates aren't talking to each other and haven't for thousands of years, and you don't really exist in the first place.
Such is the case in Sean Williams' Evermore, This story was chosen for inclusion in the Seventeenth Annual Collection of The Year's Best Science Fiction.
New York Times bestselling Sean Williams lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia, Hes written some books forty two at last count including the Philip K, Dick nominated Saturn Returns, several Star Wars novels and the Troubletwister series with Garth Nix, Twinmaker is a YA SF series that takes his love affair with the matter transmitter to a whole new level.
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