The Moons of Barsk

CONTENTS

Copyright Notice

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Understanding Home

One: Nothing But Lies

Two: One Face in a Thousand

Three: Dead Speakers

Four: Combatting Entropy

Five: Bedtime Stories

Six: Hidden in Plain Sight

Seven: Knowledge, Questions, and Choice

Eight: Genies and Bottles

Part 2: Leaving Home

Ten: Agent in Place

Eleven: Discovery

Twelve: Imaginings

Thirteen: Inscribed in Pain

Fourteen: Consequential Traffic

Fifteen: Futility All Around

Sixteen: A Committee of One

Seventeen: Collecting the Dead

Eighteen: Moon Threads

Nineteen: A Child’s View of Space

Twenty: Life and Lies Beyond Death

Twenty-One: Revisionist History

Twenty-Two: Choices

Twenty-Three: Speaking Beyond Silence

Twenty-Four: Betrayal or Redemption

Part 3: Redefining Home

Twenty-Five: Perseveration

Twenty-Six: Set Free

Twenty-Seven: Stalemate

Twenty-Eight: Refusal

Twenty-Nine: Contrition and Resolution

Thirty: Cloudless

Thirty-One: Re-Education

Thirty-Two: A Genuine Echo

Thirty-Three: Healing Rina

Thirty-Four: Departures and Retreats

Thirty-Five: Threads of Personality

Appendix One: People

Appendix Two: Places

Appendix Three: Things

A Note about Elephants

Also by Lawrence M. Schoen

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