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“Seeds of Knowledge” in Dead-Starred Futures

My microfiction piece “Seeds of Knowledge” was inspired by watching some videos about the Svalbard seed vault in Norway and imagining how a similar facility on an alien planet, where explorers don’t read the language, might look. Compared to other stories in Dead-Starred Futures, it seems a bit more positive on the surface, but the lack of anyone to translate the language suggests some sort of cataclysmic event for the previous inhabitants.

Seeds of Knowledge” originally appeared in Theme of Absence, but if you want to read it and other stories like it (sometimes darker), check out Dead-Starred Futures.


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