Now he looked around, at the sands of Mars. On the horizon a giant machine was moving, transforming the landscape into a strange and beautiful and alien thing.
  "Smith."
  He turned.
  It was Alice.
  And behind her, they were all there. Mycroft and Byron, a horde of Parisians, the scientist, Viktor, with a bright gleam in his eyes, bewildered palace servants, a small Hmong boy from Siam⦠He knew them all, now, as well as he knew himself.
  Alice held out her hand to him. She was no longer young and neither was he. He reached for her hand and held it. A great peace came on him then. Together they stood and held hands on the Martian sands.
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About the Author
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Israeli-born writer Lavie Tidhar has been called an "emerging master" by
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