I wondered how prophetic that was going to be.

I grounded within yards of the other three shuttlers. They were parked

neatly parallel. Their orderliness made my scalp prickle, and I was

sweating long before I got into the bug suit, squeezed out of the tiny

lock, and set foot on Epsilon-Terra.

The sky was blue, naked except for a tracing of tenuous clouds.

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