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It's our fourth story for the month of September 2016, issue 120. The piece is titled The Opposite and The Adjacent.

It is by Lou Yang translated by Nick Stumber.

Liu Yang has a PhD in physics and is a professor at Chien University of Technology.

Since his first short story in 2012, he has published over 30,000 words of short stories

in magazines such as Sci-Fi World and Jui Found, in addition to his 2015 short story collection, A Perfect Domes Day.

Additionally, Du is a prolific author of Sci-Fi essays with a regular column and non-exist. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Just like that, the lonely ship appeared before us, an enormous ovoid,

scarred with great cracks and fissures, as if having given way under the awesome

power of some great unknown force.

Despite having long since lost all means of propulsion, inertia and gravity had conspired to carry it within

range of our observation station in the Kuiper belt.

Having determined that the vessel posed no danger to us, Guh, Gu he and I concluded an investigation was in order.

Upon reaching the cabin door I pulled at the twisted rack of metal with the utmost of caution,

managing only to pry it open halfway.

More or less intact, the furnishings appeared slanted and strange, calling to mind famous works

of postmodern sculpture back on earth. It was around this time that we found the golden box

with him inside. Having already long since expired, he lay in the box with stiff limbs and no signs of a functioning metabolism.

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