Most people who have reached their eighties without raising children have every right to believe that they will go on not raising them, and Judith and I were no different until the day they turned up with the social worker, neatly scrubbed and pressed inside their vac-suits and carrying cases with all their remaining worldly possessions. There were three of them like stairsteps, their black hair cut in fringes across their foreheads and their dark eyes shining out disconcertingly familiar at me. But it wasn’t until the social worker said, “Mr. Chao and Ms. Goldstein, these are your grandchildren, Enid, Richard, and Harry,” that I remembered, sheepishly, about the genes we had given all those years ago, to that nice couple from New New Prague, before they left for the Oort Cloud.

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About the AuthorMarissa Lingen is an American science fiction and fantasy writer born July 26, 1978 in Libertyville, Illinois. Trained in physics and mathematics, she worked for a time at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Over the last several years her short fiction has appeared inAnalog, Ideomancer, Baen's Universe, Clarkesworld, Futurismic, and Nature, among other venues, and stories by her have been reprinted in several anthologies including David Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden's Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. She lives in Minnesota.
Title: Points of Origin : A Tor.Com Original
Author(s): Marissa Lingen
ISBN: 9780765385000
Copyright 2015
Release Date: November 04, 2015
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
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Language: English
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