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FROM ANDROMEDA AND BACK RADIO: SKIES THAT DO NOT FADE

I remember being in Chicago back in the day, listening to an FM rock station. After a bevy of alternative rock, the DJ suddenly put on the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. At the art store where I worked, one of the young hipsters immediately yelled, "Tchaikovsky!" and began conducting with her hands. I'll never forget that moment. We had gone from, say, Throwing Muses to Tchaikovsky, and I remember thinking: How cool was that? Here was music making its own case. It didn't plead. It didn't demand. In its own way, it rocked. And then, after that glorious interlude, it was back to alternative rock. The funny thing was that the classical piece had not seemed out of place. It held its own. It brought to the table its own heft, its own weight. It wasn't preachy. It wasn't better than. It was simply another fiber in the fabric of the day. And maybe that's the way great music should be heard. Not fenced off by genre. Not placed behind glass. Not approa...
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TERRA FIRMA ALIEN ENHANCEMENTS: THE MONSTER ON THE PEAK

Yes, this is Mount Wilson.
Yes, that's the famed Hooker Telescope.
Normally, it stands about nine to ten stories high. Formidable enough.
Now it's over forty stories.
And yes, that's the Cosmic Cafe.
The telescope dome and the cafe are normally separated by a good walk. Not here. Not now. Not in this terrifying new reality.
And those five figures staring up at the monster?
That's Sergeant Vasquez's hard-fighting crew of deputies, doing their best to support fellow deputies Gunz and Lucky in their epic struggle at Edgemont Place.
They were told to report to Mount Wilson.
So they did.
And then...
Nothing but mystery.
Nothing but terror.
They're all here: Sarge. Wat. Snooky. Shifty. Becky.
Armed. Experienced. Tough.
And completely unprepared for the world they have just entered.
Because nobody has explained why one of the most famous telescopes on Earth has suddenly become a forty-story monster looming over the Cosmic Cafe.
Nobody has explained what happened on this mountain, or what they're supposed to do about it.
Sarge doesn't lower her weapon. She just stares, jaw tight, waiting for the tower to do something none of them have a name for.
The monstrous tower is the least of the horrors they will face in Terra Firma.

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