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The Good Man and the Sword
By Greg Beatty
"If you're the sort of person who
is only interested in the outside of things, or stories about people
who change the world, you should stop reading now. This is a story
about the inside of things, and about a man who decided not to change
the world. "
"'I can see two Lenins! Yes. Just two. The rumours may be
true that two of the remaining clones were killed in recent fighting.
The Lenins were created by former Soviet scientists in a Swiss clinic.
Twelve batches were attempted but, we are told, only five viable
adults were created before the clinic was bombed. Who destroyed
the clinic remains a mystery. Officially the Novo Communist United
Front blame foreign powers but rumours persist that it was the result
of feuding within the factions.'"
"A swirl of green in a dazzlingly
blue sky: no one got a clear shot of it despite untold tourists'
cameras trained upward and gulping its leafy light. A swirl of green:
history deflected with ricochet force as the unprecedented appeared,
a sky isle, an emerald swirl suspended in a cerulean sky."
