3.5
Now We Paint Worlds
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Matthew Kressel's "Now We Paint Worlds" is a space operatic Tor.com Original short story.
Orna, a representative of a universe-wide trade union, undergoes a drastic change in perspective while investigating the disappearance of three planets and their inhabitants on a newly terraformed world.
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3.5
“This is like when people ask if aliens or Gods had only one human to speak to and act as the representative for humanity, but you gave them the wrong person.
Cosmic nihilism defeated by love. Always love.”
““They come because they find relief knowing that, as far as the universe is concerned, all their problems are small, and all their troubles will soon be forgotten.”
“Some of us might want to be remembered,” she said.
“By whom?” he said. “Those who remember us will soon be dust too. Look around. Everything you see will eventually be dust.”
“In a billion years, perhaps.”
“A blink of an eye in eternity.”
meh. that is my review lol”
About Matthew Kressel
Matthew Kressel is a writer and software developer. He is a three time Nebula Award Finalist, a World Fantasy Award finalist, and a Eugie Award Finalist. His short fiction can be found in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog, Tor.com. io9, Nightmare, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, The Best Science Fiction of the Year – Volume 3, and many other magazines and anthologies. He is also is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, in use by many of the largest SF publishers today.
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