《End Game》作者： - Nancy Kress【EPUB】

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END GAME by Nancy Kress * * * * “I’m an Asimov’s veteran. My second published story appeared in the January/February 1978 issue, and the bulk of my short work has appeared in Asimov’s ever since, including one Hugo-and two Nebula-Award winning stories. I’ve published with five editors and countless format changes, and I’m still thrilled to be here.” —Nancy Kress Focusing on a single gambit can lead to an unsettling... * * * * Allen Dodson was sitting in seventh-grade math class, staring at the back of Peggy Corcoran’s head, when he had the insight that changed the world. First his own world and then, eventually, like dominos toppling in predestined rhythm, everybody else’s, until nothing could ever be the same again. Although we didn’t, of course, know that back then. The source of the insight was Peggy Corcoran. Allen had sat behind her since third grade (Anderson, Blake, Corcoran, Dodson