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Stephen Baxter
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Louise Ye Armonk stood on the weather deck of the SS Great Britain. From here she could see the full length of Brunei's fine steam liner: the polished deck, the skylights, the airy masts with their loops of wire rigging, the single, squat funnel amidships.
And beyond the glowing dome which sheltered the old ship, the sky of the Solar System's rim loomed like a huge, empty room.
Louise still felt a little drunk - sourly now - from the orbiting party she'd left a few minutes earlier. She subvocalized a command to send nanobots scouring through her bloodstream; she sobered up fast, with a brief shudder.
Mark Bassett Friar Armonk Wu - Louise's ex-husband -stood close by her. They'd left the Great Northern, with its party still in full swing, to come here, to the surface of Port Sol, in a cramped pod. Mark was dressed in a one-piece jumpsuit of some pastel fabric; the lines of his neck were long and elegant as he turned his head to survey the old ship.
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