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  • FUTURES

The one who gets left behind

A moment of reflection.
  1. Victoria Brun

    1. Victoria Brun is a project manager at a national laboratory. When not bugging hard-working scientists about budgets, she is writing stories you can find at Daily Science Fiction, Uncharted Magazine and elsewhere.

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A damaged space station sits in the middle of the rocky landscape while figures in silhouette look down from a distant platform

Illustration by Jacey

There was some sort of malfunction. Or accident. Or sabotage. One moment the space station and all my systems — an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of parts — were working in perfect harmony, protecting my precious cargo from the cruelty of space.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03042-7

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