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Title: The Waters of Meribah
Author: Tony Ballantyne
Length: short story
First Publication: Interzone, 2003
What the Story is About: Buddy Joe pays for his crime by being fitted for an alien suit. From the introduction to the story in Year’s Best SF 9:
It is about the nature of the universe and the human desire to understand it and manipulate it, and the utter disaster that results. It it also about the old SF idea of scientists making monsters.
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