Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.
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See You In Our Dreams
Full novel (PDF): https://cloud.cosmos.coop/s/jSms2tzfWCawZL3 In the lineage of the best science fiction and the register of today’s new climate fiction—cli-fi for those who haven’t been reading much—See You in Our Dreams weaves a rich tapestry: a near …