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Dave Duncan WEST OF JANUARY

The probe telemetry was wrong! Close, but not close enough—the damned things not locked on the star as we thought Revolution—264.6 days; rotation—263. 6. Not much of a difference, is it?

But do you realize what that does to all our plans?

—MIKE ANGELI, PLANETOLOGIST, COLONIZATION EXPEDITION

We named the ship well, didn’t we—the Mayflower? With a hundred years of daylight, we’re all going to be mayflies!

—CELESTE GABRIEL, SOCIOLOGIST, COLONIZATION EXPEDITION

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and it withereth…

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

—PSALM 90