
Vegvísir by David Goodman (audio)
Clarkesworld Magazine
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The Red Dust Is Doing Its Work
Suit is running a simple gyro monitor, so it will tell me if i change direction by more than a degree. If i don't stick to the glowing arrow projected in my helmet display, i might be half a kilometer or more off target. I've been walking for 16 minutes, but it feels like a whole day. There's sweat dripping down my back. The early settlers lost quite a few surveyors to solar storms. They just disappeared into the dust torms.
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