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“A Half-Built-Garden is also far-future, and it’s a first-contact alien story. The main character works for a watershed collective on the east coast of the US, and they make first contact with the alien – not a president, not the government, and not the military, but someone involved in a watershed collective, with her baby. It turns out that the aliens also have their babies with them, so the fact that the first human they contact has her child with her helps them to connect the two species: they have something in common, because they’re both caring for their young.” Read more...
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