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- The Evenhand
A Registrar counting the living song-lines of a colony that assigns children their teachers by lot learns from a herdmaster's goat-breeding manual that the column of losses was never a record of failure, only of chance drifting one way — and that the best the colony can do is make it later.
- The Ecclesiastical Moon
On a colony that has never seen a spring, an aging computist defends the medieval arithmetic of Easter — machinery built not to describe the sky, but to produce agreement between people who can no longer speak to one another.