Asimov's SF, October-November 2011 by Dell Magazine Authors

Author:Dell Magazine Authors
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dell Magazines

Poetry: GALILEO'S INKSPOTS FADE INTO TWILIGHT by Geoffrey A. Landis

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Galileo's Inkspots Fade into Twilight

Monks and madmen announce the end is near

and in the half-light auroras flare by day.

We look up at the mottled Sun in fear,

while from the north, the ice moves down to stay.

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Solar variation, we are told.

Pressure oscillations in the core.

Stars sometimes do that as they get old.

A normal thing for a middle-aged star.

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Just a short time, a million years or two

a magnitude dimmer, rarely much more,

not long to wait until it glows anew,

barely a blink in the life of a star

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Inkspots now spatter the disk of the sun,

and brightness fades: our last days are begun.

—Geoffrey A. Landis

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