Hexarchate science fiction available in Press Start to Play, ed. John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson, an anthology of stories about and inspired by video games.

Thanks to my betas: Chris Chinn, Yune Kyung Lee, Joseph Betzwieser, Daedala, and Sonya Taaffe.

I may also have been inspired by John Kessel’s essay on Ender’s Game, “Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender’s Game, Intention, and Morality.”

For the curious, this also takes place in the hexarchate/heptarchate setting of “The Battle of Candle Arc,” although you don’t need that information to follow the story. (I hope!)