by Molly Gloss
In November, when she finished with the sheep and went into town, she asked around and found a guy who knew about stargazing and telescopes. He loaned her some books and sent her to a certain pawnshop, and she gave most of a year’s wages for a 14x75 telescope with a reflective lens. On clear, moonless nights she met the astronomy guy out at the Little League baseball field, and she sat on a fold-up canvas stool with her eye against the telescope’s finder while he told her what she was seeing: Jupiter’s moons, the Pelican Nebula, the Andromeda galaxy. The telescope had a tripod mount, and he showed her how to make a little jerry-built device so she could mount her old 7x32 mm binoculars on the tripod too. She used the binoculars for their wider view of star clusters and small constellations. She was indifferent to most discomforts, could sit quietly in one position for hours at a time, teeth rattling with the cold, staring into the immense vault of the sky until she became numb and stiff, barely able to stand and walk back home. Astronomy, she discovered, was a work of patience, but the sheep had taught her patience, or it was already in her nature before she ever took up with them.
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The Unforeseen
Molly Gloss
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MOLLY GLOSS is a fourth-generation Oregonian who now lives in the Portland area. She is the author of five other novels: The Jump-Off Creek, Outside the Gates, Wild Life, The Hearts of Horses, and Falling from Horses, and one collection of stories, Unforeseen.
Her awards include the Oregon Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and a Whiting Award for Fiction, and her short story “Lambing Season” was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her work often concerns the landscape, literature, mythology, and life of the American West. Visit the author at mollygloss.com or on Twitter at @mollygloss.
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Falling from Horses
The Hearts of Horses
The Jump-Off Creek
Outside the Gates
Wild Life
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gloss, Molly, author.
Title: The dazzle of day / Molly Gloss.
Description: First Saga Press paperback edition. | London ; New York : Saga Press, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022758 | ISBN 9781481498470 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781481498487 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781481498494 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Space colonies—Fiction. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3557.L65 D39 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022758