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2. Here too the concept of mirror is an approximation, for the phenomenon in question extended into a minimum of seven dimensions; but mirror is a close and useful metaphor.
3. Theology hopes for local boundedness, but as yet this remains unproven.
4. A poetic simplification to describe a quantum event affecting neural perception.
5. This too is a poetic simplification.
7. A Brief Digression on Hans Christian Andersen and the Present State of Physics
6. S = k log W, which is to say, entropy is directly related to the number of states of a system. If we somehow could perceive all the possible microscopic states of the universe, S would be constant.
7. Imagine, say, a boy forming the icy shards of reason into a picture of eternity. The metaphor is not inadequate.
About the Author
E. Lily Yu is a writer and narrative designer whose fiction has appeared in places such as McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Her first novel, On Fragile Waves, is forthcoming from Erewhon Books in Fall 2020.
Copyright © 2019 by E. Lily Yu
Art copyright © 2019 by Audrey Benjaminsen
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Contents
Title Page
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Deriving Life
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For He Can Creep
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Beyond the El
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Zeitgeber
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
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One/Zero
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Skinner Box
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The Song
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Articulated Restraint
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Painless
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Seonag and the Seawolves
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Any Way the Wind Blows
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Blue Morphos in the Garden
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His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light
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Old Media
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More Real Than Him
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The Hundredth House Had No Walls
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The Touches
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Knowledgeable Creatures
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Blood is Another Word for Hunger
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The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir
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Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy
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Water: A History
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As the Last I May Know
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The Time Invariance of Snow
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1. The Devil and the Physicist
2. K. and G.
3. The Ravens
4. The Robber Queen
5. The Lap Women
6. The Snow Queen
7. A Brief Digression on Hans Christian Andersen and the Present State of Physics
8. G. and the Devil
9. G. and K.
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These are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these novellas are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.
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