2008 Hugo Nominee! By Elizabeth Bear. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: The Fall by Red Hunter. They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded like a spider s palps beneath the turreted head that finished her pointed end, her polyceramic armor spiderwebbed like shatterproof glass. Unhelmed by her remote masters, she limped along the beach, dragging one fused limb. She was nearly derelict. The beach was where she met Belvedere. Rated PG. Contains implied violence and themes of death. Referenced Sites: 2008 Hugo Awards And the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth Bear (on Starship Sofa) WisCon May 23-26, Madison, WI
