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Only two inches high, Zappazoids were still a formidable foe. A pair of cruisers, no bigger than bathtub toys, had dropped out of warp, shot the bolts off a panel, and inserted mechworms, which had to be removed by hand. Ensign Flores got the spacewalk duty, hoping the Zappazoids hadn't done this just to get a human out here.

A cruiser winked into existence and got in her face.

"Small is beautiful," it said. "Tiny is superior and you are a big oaf."

Then it disappeared.

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The man approached the hut of the Knower. It had been a long trek on a dusty trail and a starship voyage before that. The chickens in the yard blocked his way. The rooster crowed his arrival.

A young woman pushed open the curtain and stood in the door.

My lover was on the Gallantine when it was sucked into a black hole. My question: If I enter the black hole, will I see her?

She beckoned him in. Are you willing to endure the eye? It is an excruciating experience.

I must know.