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"Last Contact" is a science fiction short story published in 2007 by Stephen Baxter. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Plot. A mother and daughter, Maureen and 35-year-old Caitlin, live through the last few months of Earth's existence.
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After it is announced that an apocalyptic event that will destroy all life in the universe, an astrophysicist and her gardener mother meet in near-future England to decide how to spend the last months of life.
Surrounded by an endless ocean thousands of miles from home, a skeleton crew of soldiers (Bosworth, Kretschmann, Laviscount, and McCann) stand as the last bastion, defending their homeland from...
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Jan 1, 2007 · A mother and daughter, Maureen and 35-year-old Caitlin, live through the last few months of Earth's existence. Maureen and her late husband Harry are described as having substantial astrophysical intelligence.
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Stephen Baxter's "Last Contact" (short story, science fiction): A description of apocalypse. Very well told - even if the plot is uninteresting. I wasn't bored. It's probably best described as a "weird physics" story. Full text of this story is available for download. Note: I've not read this online version.
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A Hugo-nominated short story by Stephen Baxter, published by Solaris Books, about the last contact with an alien civilization. The story is available for free on the web site of A Dribble of Ink, a blog about fantasy and science fiction.
