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The Guardian: a ring of glowing stone on a barren plain; within its aperture, two starship captains stand turned from one another, while a woman in a 1930s coat watches from afar.
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The City Beyond Forever

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If the wrong choice produces forty years of love, marriage, parenthood, grief and genuine happiness, does correcting the mistake make that life meaningless?
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The first time I saw "The Inner Light," I sat in the dark a long time after it ended. When I finally dried my eyes, a thought came to me: what if that had been Kirk? What if he could have spent a life with Edith Keeler?I…

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Part One: The Hand That Opened The Door
Part Two: Things I Must Not Do
Part Three: Four True Things
Part Four: A Reading, Not A Correction
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