The Domination

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The richest man in the world liked eating pastrami sandwiches in orbit; he also liked conducting certain sensitive interviews there, where it was easier to be really sure nobody was listening in. He and the researcher were sitting and watching the sunset beyond the curve of earth, the planet turning like a great white and blue shield below him. The yacht’s forward reentry plates were retracted, leaving the nose three-quarters transparent. Beyond earth, stars burned in airless clarity. Bright dots moved across their sight, ships and orbital habitats.

“Damn, I’m still not used to zero G,” Henry Carmaggio said, snagging a scrap of pastrami that was floating away. The airscrubber system would get it eventually, but it was a little embarrassing.

The researcher was Japanese. Nomura Takashi by name, an up-and-coming young physicist who had been working for IngolfTech’s Basic Research Division for a year now. He waited politely, occasionally straying up against the restraining harness of his seat.

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