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By Orson Scott Card

Excessive above the planet concord, the Oversoul watches. Its activity, programmed such a lot of millennia in the past, is to protect the human cost in this planet—to safeguard this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. to guard them, such a lot of all, from themselves.

The Oversoul has performed its task good. there is not any battle on concord. There aren't any guns of mass destruction. there isn't any know-how which may result in guns of battle. by means of keep an eye on of the knowledge banks, and refined interference within the very innovations of the folks, the unreal intelligence has fulfilled its mission.

But now there's a challenge. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has misplaced entry to a few of its reminiscence banks, and a few of its energy structures are failing. And on the earth, males are starting to take into consideration strength, wealth, and conquest.

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He heard a loud crash. Debris scattered. It was Ivan’s dumpster—he had dropped it. Carl looked up. The crane’s grappling arm pointed at the third vat like a spear, and the crane plummeted straight down toward it. He caught a glimpse of Ivan’s pale, wide-eyed face as first the arm, then his cage, plunged into the vat. Disassembler fluid surged up and swallowed him and the crane. The vat walls buckled, and disassembler fluid spewed out. Carl dove behind a stack of crates. Too late to help Ivan. The bugs were everywhere.

Sean sighed. He was so goddamn sick and tired of burying the dead. He had fought in three wars, Downside; he had seen a lot of young dead. Hell, he thought, I’m a fucking death midwife. Commissioner Navio had recommended the kid for the job. Sean was not looking forward to that call. Then he got a look at the young man crouched beside the body. He adjusted his radio settings till he got a ping. “You related? ” The young man said nothing. ” It just kept getting better. Sean waved the responders forward.

The bugs were everywhere. Murky, grey-brown oil surged and splatted against the other vats, the trash, the walls, the floor. Gravity on 25 Phocaea was a bare one-thousandth of Earth’s; gobs of bug juice sloshed and wobbled about; the air filled with deadly mist. The vats were coated on the inside with a special paint that the disassemblers were programmed not to touch, but on the outside they were vulnerable. One after another, the vats blew. As Carl made for the maintenance tunnel he was badly spattered.

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