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The Best We Can

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The Best We Can

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Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor.com Publishing, 2013
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Book Type: Short Story
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: First Contact
Near-Future
Mundane SF
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Synopsis

First contact was supposed to change the course of human history. But it turns out, you still have to go to work the next morning.

This story is included in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction(2018), edited by Irene Gallo.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com.


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The Best We Can

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  (2/19/2021)

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