Excerpt: The ship’s cat slipped Tom’s grip and ran up the curving floor toward the galley.  As he stalked her, young Tom felt less sure of himself.  He could talk it over with Pilot, but Pilot was in sim and not to be bothered unless it was an emergency.  Was a dare an emergency?  Only … Continue reading “In The Space Of Nine Lives,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January 2006, p. 24