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    The Death of Cassandra Quebec
    The Death of Cassandra Quebec
    The Death of Cassandra Quebec
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    The Death of Cassandra Quebec

    By Eric Brown

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    Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world's most celebrated artist, but then she announced her betrothal to minor laser-sculptor Nathaniel Maltravers. A year later she was dead. And now... her death has become a work of art.

    Powerful and clever science fiction from the two times winner of the BSFA short story award.

    "British writing with a deft, understated touch: wonderful"
    -- New Scientist

    "SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility"
    -- Paul McAuley

    "One of the very best of the new generation of British SF writers"
    -- Vector

    "Eric Brown has an enviable talent for writing stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values"
    -- Bob Shaw

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherinfinity plus
    Release dateNov 12, 2011
    ISBN9781465810496
    The Death of Cassandra Quebec
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    Eric Brown

    Twice winner of the British Science Fiction Award, Eric Brown is the author of more than twenty SF novels and several short story collections. His debut crime novel, Murder by the Book, was published in 2013. Born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, he now lives in Scotland.

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      The Death of Cassandra Quebec - Eric Brown

      The Death of Cassandra Quebec

      Eric Brown

      infinity plus singles #8

      Published by infinity plus at Smashwords

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      © Eric Brown 1990, 2011

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      This story was first published in Zenith II, edited by David Garnett (1990).

      The moral right of Eric Brown to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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      The Death of Cassandra Quebec

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      The Death of Cassandra Quebec

      I came to Sapphire Oasis in search of experience, or so I thought at the time. I had made my home on Nova Francais for almost two decades, the last few years a repetition of cafe-life, parties and second-rate exhibitions where even my best crystals failed to sell. I was getting old and lonely and my work was suffering, and some vague desperation drove me to Earth to experience that which I might synthesize, through my skill, into art.

      The famous crystal The Death of Cassandra Quebec was being exhibited for the first time in ten years, and I made this my excuse to revisit the planet of my birth. I took a bigship through the interstellar telemass portal to Timbuktu and caught the mono-train north to Sapphire Oasis.

      I had seen many a lavish illustration of the colony – had even admired Tyrone's famous hologram of '37 – and as a result I was overcome with a sense of deja vu at first sight. The oval oasis, perhaps a kilometre from end to end, was surrounded by a great leaning series of golden scimitars, their hilts planted in the sand of the desert, their arching blades supporting the pendant globes that comprised living quarters and spacious studios with views across the artificial lake.

      That first night I dined alone in the revolving restaurant on the island at the centre

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