Carnival

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The author would like to thank, in no particular order, Kenneth D. Woods (for the conversation that started this whole idea), Sarah Monette, Ursula Whitcher, Michael Evans, Dr. Stella Evans, Kathryn Allen, Dr. Ian Tregillis, Chelsea Polk, Amanda Downum, Leah Bobet, Dr. Avi Ornstein, Dr. Peter Watts, Dr. Jacqueline A. Hope, Larry Klein, Greg Wilson, Terry Karney, S. K. S. Perry, the Online Writing Workshops’ “Zoo,” Faren Bachelis, Anne Lesley Groell, Kit Kindred, Jennifer Jackson, and others too numerous to name.

BOOK ONE

The Festival of Meat

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MICHELANGELO OSIRIS LEARY KUSANAGI-JONES HAD BEEN drinking since fourteen hundred. He didn’t plan on stopping soon.

He occupied a bubbleport on the current observation deck of Kaiwo Maru,where he had been since he started drinking, watching a yellow main-sequence star grow. The sun had the look of a dancer swirling in veils, a Van Gogh starscape. Eons before, it had blundered into a cloud of interstellar gas and was still devouring the remains. Persistent tatters glowed orange and blue against a backdrop of stars, a vast, doomed display of color and light. Kusanagi-Jones could glimpse part of the clean-swept elliptical path that marked the orbit of New Amazonia: a darker streak like a worm tunnel in a leaf.

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