“We ride ten to a aero shield for a few minutes... we all roll off...
My drop pack spins out millions of threads like gossamer, almost invisibly thin. We call this puff. The threads expand to a lumpy ball fifty meters wide, which wobbles and snatches at Mars's thin, thin air - and then gloms onto other balls, other Skyrines enveloped in puff.
All around our jammed puffballs, curling thread tips burn away...”
From “War Dogs” by Greg Bear.
Published by Orbit in 2014
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