Protocol

Protocol

by Timothy Zahn (Analog, September 2002) [Novelette]

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A seemingly effortless piece of SF world-building. Colonists cut off on a frontier settlement must comport themselves by unfathomable alien rules… at pain of death. But what happens if the rituals stop working? Unsatisfyingly, the story poses but doesn’t answer this question.

 

 

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