Residents of Noage Itray could look up and see the ballcourt hanging ten miles overhead, four meters wide and fifty long from goal line to goal line. Stands stretched along each side, row upon row of seats slanting up and back. For the station’s entire thirty-five-mile cylindrical length, buildings and gardens clung to its curving interior walls, bright with reflected sunlight.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ann Leckie
- First published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Strange Horizons
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
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