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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

1. Starship Girl

2. Land Ho

3. In the Wind

4. Reversion to the Mean

5. Homesick

6. The Hard Problem

7. What Is This

Acknowledgments

Also by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2015 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Cover design by Kirk Benshoff

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