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The Enceladus South Pole base named after VI-I Lenin and is by Zohar Jacobs.

Zohar Jacobs grew up in New Hampshire.

She has lived for more than 20 years in Oxford, England,

and works in cultural policy.

A graduate of Viable Paradise.

She has stories published or forthcoming in Sunday morning

transport, small wonders, and analog. Her next goal is to finish reading The Lord of the Rings

in Icelandic. How cool is that? Anyway, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The sketch showed a young woman, her face a perfect oval, holding our base in her cupped hands.

Behind her head Saturn hung golden with its halo of rings. That was the first sign that religion had come with us to Enceladus.

I had risen early in the hope of Seneci for breakfast as they were in short supply.

Too early as it turned out because nothing was ready yet.

Lingering by the notice board in the main hall,

I had first glance mechanically toward the shift to schedules.

Reports on our progress toward the five-year plan,

Teletype news from Tass and Pravda about the victories of the North of Vietnamese

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