"Colonel Korolev twisted slowly in his harness, dreaming of winter and gravity. Young again, a cadet, he whipped his horse across the late November steppes of Kazakhstan into dry red vistas of Martian sunset."
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"Red Star, Winter Orbit" (co-authored with Bruce Sterling, originally appearing in Omni, July 1983)
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