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Next thing you knew, the spot would be fenced off or filled in so no one could ever use it again. ”Poole looked at me, and at her. The twenty-third century, he thought. Now she thinks it’s just unpleasant.

Before noon, he was landing on the coast at the deserted Matagorda Island air force base a few hundred yards from the ocean. But you could at least listen. “What is it?” Svetlana asked. He stood and so profoundly wanted to jump.