First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.The Sun
Once, Feng Fan was a mountaineer, but when he let others plummet to their deaths to save himself, he was faced with the full weight of media condemnation and his own conscience. But now aliens have arrived, and on death's door he is given the unexpected o