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"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick starts with a meteor strike on a human city on an alien planet of millipede-like creatures.

REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2009

"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick (originally reviewed as part of a 2009 Hugo Short Fiction Nominees reading project) starts with a meteor strike on a human city on an alien planet of millipede-like creatures.

REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois 2009

Overall, I'd say the Hugo nominees are stronger stories, though probably the weaker in terms of science fiction content "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" being the exception.

Hugo and Nebula nominated short stories 2009

"Fall'n, fall'n I seem'dyet, oh! not less belov'd,/Tho 'from thy love was pluck'd the early pride" (II. xxxix).

Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron 2001

To Horatio, as he grieves over his friend's dead body, the story is one of 'purposes mistook/Fall'n on th'inventors' heads '.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Fall'n low, and all unclothed, even of my poor dust.

Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858

Fall'n with the brave, e'er number'd with the slain —

On the Death of Lieutenant-Colonel Buller, Killed in Flanders in 1795 1796

Johnson's story makes for an interesting counterpoint to Michael Swanwick's "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled," which is good old fashioned Proper SF, set in the far future and on an alien planet, and featuring interplanetary intrigue, cataclysmic destruction, fights to the death, a mad scramble across hostile, alien terrain, and bug people.

Asking the Wrong Questions 2009

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Felix Salmon - All posts 2008

"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick

REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2009