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“Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black” by Isabel J. Kim is one of those generation ship stories. Except not told from the inside of the ship, but from two scavengers waiting for its empty corpse on the outside. It is funny how despite all the discussion of possible causes, we never learn much about the actual cause that this one failed. It is also funny that the main character has such a disdain for Earth ecology, but is perfectly fine with a mayfly metaphor…