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Author’s Note:

The USSF organizational structure is depicted realistically, as are the U.S. sensors and the Chinese Long March 9. The Shenlong-3 is a hypothesized follow-on to China’s Shenlong spacecraft. The X-39 is a hypothesized follow-on to the Boeing X-37 robotic spacecraft. The Chinese space-based plasma rail gun is pure fiction (as far as I know), though the most speculative part of this story may be a husband regularly making dinner for his wife.

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Henry Herz’s short stories include “Out, Damned Virus” (Daily Science Fiction), “Bar Mitzvah on Planet Latke” (Coming of Age, Albert Whitman & Co.), “The Magic Backpack” (Metastellar), “Unbreakable” (Musing of the Muses, Brigid’s Gate Press), “The Case of the Murderous Alien” (Spirit Machine, Air and Nothingness Press), “The Ghosts of Enerhodar” (Literally Dead, Alienhead Press), “Cheating Death” (The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie, Blackstone Publishing), “Maria & Maslow” (Highlights for Children), and “A Proper Party” (Ladybug magazine). He’s edited five anthologies and written twelve picture books, including the critically acclaimed I Am Smoke.


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