![]() ![]() ![]() It appears to be in working order, but when you step into the "wormcaster," you're still on Cyernus. But the name "The Loop" implies that if you keep going forward, eventually you'll come back to where you started.Įxcept that on Cyernus, Loop Junction 163 is broken. ![]() Each transmitter, however, is one-way you cannot turn around and retrace your steps. ![]() " The N-Body Solution" is set far in the future, as we learn on the opening page, when the first-person narrator Alex enters a bar to get "as plastered as the ancients," and describes the place as containing "humans, sub-humans, post-humans, poly-humans-every category I'd ever heard of, plus some types that probably weren't human at all."Īt the heart of the story is "The Loop," a series of matter transmitters left behind by a vanished alien race, which allow you to step from one world directly onto another. " The N-Body Solution" is a wonderful example. The best science fiction can inspire awe with galaxy-spanning concepts, while simultaneously pulling the reader into the story through the characters' personal dramas. My Story Recommendation of the Week is for " The N-Body Solution" by Sean Williams, the second SROTW from the anthology Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams. ![]()
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