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Europa Spring

Published Mar 3, 2020 · 3,599 words (14 minutes) · 4 likes · 867 views

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150 years in the ice and radiation of Jupiter’s moon has left a small community irrevocably changed—right down to their DNA. When a probe from a space station drops out of the sky with an offer of “rescue,” Vlad and his wife Marie have a difficult (and life-altering) choice to make.

Author Elinor Caiman Sands lives and writes in the UK. Her work has appeared in the Defying Doomsday anthology, Cosmos Online, and the Strange Bedfellows Anthology of Political Science Fiction.

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Night exploration of the ice cave. Tourists come to check this glacier and icecave in the daytime, which means nobody is around at night. This time i was also lucky and northern lights were turned on. Unluckily the wind was strong and it blew snow all around from the glacier…also on the camera and lens (which can be seen on the top part of the picture..3 circles). White balance was set on cloudy, so blue came out. There was some tweaking of the exposure, shadows and clarity, but mainly this is it. Looks like a fairy-tail. Thank you Tomas, for pressing the button on the camera :) .

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Elinor Caiman Sands

Brief Candle (Io, #2)

Published Mar 3, 2020 · 7,835 words (29 minutes) · 355 views

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Magrian is an Iod, a genetically engineered "non-person" destined to spend his life as a brutally oppressed miner on Jupiter's hostile moon, Io. But his life is turned upside down when he meets Jazri, an expert on volcanism from nearby Europa. This story is a sequel to “In Place of Darkness” which first appeared in the Strange Bedfellows anthology of Political Science Fiction, (Bundoran Press, 2014).

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Elinor Caiman Sands

In Place of Darkness (Io, #1)

Published Mar 3, 2020 · 3,444 words (13 minutes) · 324 views

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An apparently rich and privileged young man is sent by his industrialist father to deal with a potentially explosive labour strike on an Io mining colony. The miners are strange, troll-like, radiation-adapted beings who most people dismiss as barely human. The young man nevertheless agrees to meet with their leader and ultimately comes to question whose side he's on, the miners' or his father's? Originally published in Strange Bedfellows: An Anthology of Political Science Fiction.

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