Ringwall

The pass through the Ringwall was a short one, just a few hundred yards, the way down the other side pretty much like the one we'd followed upward, and we all stood there too, looking out and down at what lay beyond.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Far away, at least another half-million miles away, was the other side of the Ringwall.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

We'd measured it, after a fashion, triangulating peaks around the Ringwall during our trek, plotting angle and azimuth on our birchbark maps as we walked around the world, day on week on month on year, slowly climbing, downward into the past, upward to the end of time.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The pass we'd spotted months ago, spent months climbing toward, was maybe eighty thousand feet above the Endtime grassland at the foot of the Ringwall.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Down in the hollows, all you could see was the white-ice peaks of the Ringwall.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

From the lowest passes through the Ringwall, the Earth Bubble looks unreal, even more like an Impressionist canvas than the Grand Canyon, or the view southward from Kilimanjaro.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

I could also add an ultrasonic fogger I found that's a volcano if the walls of the tank were a little higher: scorpions don't go up sheer surfaces like geckoes, but a rough plastic incline they could probably do, and the volcano's high enough to put them within reach of the edge, returning us to the arthropodal Ringworld Ringwall/Fist-of-God scenario I mentioned a couple of months ago.

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Too bad that Ringwall hadn't seen fit to send a more able and experienced agent to her rescue.

License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001

Ringwall asked, snatching up a sheet of fax paper from his desk.

License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001

Ringwall still wouldn't be happy, but at least the damage was under control.

License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001