Strahan, Jonathan (ed) - Mission Critical / Стрэн, Джонатан (ред) - Критически важная миссия [2019, EPUB, ENG]

This is Not the Way Home / Это не путь домой novelette by Greg Egan Rescue Party novelette by Aliette de Bodard Devil in the Dust short story by Linda Nagata Hanging Gardens short story by Gregory Feeley The One Who Was There short story by John Barnes By the Warmth of Their Calculus novelette by Tobias S. Buckell Mutata Superesse short story by Jason Fischer and Sean Williams The Empty Gun short story by Yoon Ha Lee Genesong novelette by Peter F. Hamilton Something in the Air novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman Lost in Splendour short story by John Meaney The Agreement short story by Dominica Phetteplace The Fires of Prometheus short story by Allen Steele Ice Breakers short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Cyclopterus / Пинагор short story by Peter Watts

WHEN AISHA SPOTTED Jingyi through the window, for a second she thought she was seeing a reflection in the glass. Suited to the neck but bareheaded, her helmet gripped in one hand by her side, Jingyi had to be standing behind her, facing away from her into the room. But she wasn’t. Aisha knelt on the floor and wept. It was Jingyi who had kept her from giving in to despair. It was Jingyi who had shaped the plan into something real and found the strength to pursue it. But when she’d faltered, when she’d fallen into doubt herself, all of Aisha’s attempts to lift her spirits and restart the virtuous circle of encouragement that had kept them both sane and striving for close to a year, had come to nothing. . . .