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PLAYING MUSIC AND CHASING TUFT OCCUPIED THEIR LIVES
Blood brothers and bandmates, Kip Marten, Flyte Error and Red Green spend their nights playing clubs in the barraque for 'quistes and topsiders alike, and their days sleeping it off. That is, until a chance discovery in a reclamation haul upends their lives and puts them-and the entire barraque-in mortal danger.

Travel with the author of Time's Fool, and Other Stories from the past to the far distant future, from Annapolis to Andromeda, and enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee along the way. This eclectic science fiction collection includes the Nebula-finalist story "His Hour Upon the Stage." Then there were no more words, just two bodies pressed tightly against each other yet already hundreds of miles apart. We walked together, arm in arm, through the dark house, the lobby and out to the street. We kissed one last time then I watched her walk away. At the corner, she stopped, smiled weakly, and waved...

This lyrical story collection asks the price of life, as you travel alongside the Timedippers and the Immortals, from the present to the far-distant future. "If his heart was pounding now, it was not in fear but in exultation. He was alive, come what may, come death and extinction, as surely it must. You can't go back, he though, and you can't stand still. He had to go forward or he would surely die. That was where his strength and his art lay, in the constant fight against Death, spitting in its very face, not in conquering it and then living in a fearful immortality. So he would die. So...