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The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards

by Jason Sanford

Forty years after NASA explorer Tessa Raij attempted to step through a dimensional portal and was instead relegated to an inexplicable state of isolation in a radioactivce crater, a dead girl—resembling her grandmother as a teen—shows up at her feet.
— Michael Main
Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.
DEBUT
“The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2021.
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1 English variant
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Time Periods Themes
  • Differing Time Rates: And the moment anything exited her sphere it experienced a passage of time equal to what scientists estimated to be a billion years.
  • Frozen Time: Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.
  • Unusual Aging: No one knew why she didn’t age or need to eat or breathe or why if she tried to kill herself she healed instantly.
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