They stare at each other like they are coming out from under a spell, shake their heads. They walk out onto the frozen canal, Amelia holding on to the guys, all stepping carefully. It is indeed cold. They will indeed freeze on the way home.
“Could you believe that guy on the whatever?”
“I know. Fucking amazing. Best music I ever heard.”
“And now, look at this, here we are right on top of the place, and it’s like they’re not even there!”
“It’s true. And there was hardly anyone there anyway. I never even caught the band’s name.”
“They might not even have a name.”
“Heck, there’s probably fifty bands like them playing tonight in this city. Dances like that going on right now, all over town.”
“It’s true. Fucking New York.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to:
Mario Biagioli, Terry Bisson, Ilene Brecher, Finn Brunton, Dick Bryan, Denis Bunting, Monica Byrne, Joshua Clover, Ron Drummond, Daniel Friedman, Laurie Glover, Kenneth Goldsmith, Usman Haque, Stephen J. Hoch, Bjarke Ingels, Fredric Jameson, Henry Kaiser, Leslie Kaufman, Drew Keeling, Lorenzo Kristov, Laura Martin and the 2016 Clarion selection committee, Randy Martin and Robert Meister, Beth Meacham, Colin Milburn, Lisa Nowell, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Phil Rogaway, Antonio Scarponi, Marcus Schaefer and Hiromi Hosoya, Carter Scholz, Sharon Strauss, and Lee Upshur.
Special thanks to Tim Holman.
By Kim Stanley Robinson
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Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Martians
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The Years of Rice and Salt
SCIENCE IN THE CAPITAL
Forty Signs of Rain
Fifty Degrees Below
Sixty Days and Counting
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New York 2140
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