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“You’re just a …partial. ught streak through him, all the excitement discharging itself from yet another place that the me might reside. ’“I hadn’t been entirely negligent. I pay full attention.

I kind of wish everyone—”“Sorry,” he said. Damien Broderick, “Dead Air,” Asimov’s, February. ”“But you’re leaving something out. The only thing “later” meant to me was months later, slowly regaining my identity on the trip back to Earth.