BCS 030: In the Age of Iron and Ashes
By Aliette de Bodard
Issue #35, January 28, 2010

The girl did not answer for a while; for so long, in fact, that Yudhyana had started to move back towards the camp. When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat. “Everything lives and dies,” she whispered. “Everything changes, and all changes end in death.”

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Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a computer engineer. In addition to four stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, her fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy and Asimov's. Her first novel, Servant of the Underworld, was released by Angry Robot/Harper Collins in January 2010. She has been a Writers of the Future winner and a Campbell Award finalist.  Visit http://www.aliettedebodard.com for more information.

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