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The Second Kind of Loneliness by Rob Rey

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Title:	The Second Kind of Loneliness
Date Created:	7/2021
Copyright:	© Rob Rey
Genre:	Sci Fi
Mediums:	Oils
Views:	288
Posted:	11/3/2022

Rob Rey
Member Since October 2013

Projects: Abend Gallery, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Upper Deck, Star Wars Trading Card Game, HEX Online Card Game

Location: Centennial, CO

A short sci-fi story by George R R Martin, The Second Kind of Loneliness, is the diary of a lone astronaut stationed at the edge of the solar system to operate a machine that can open a wormhole, the null-space vortex, which facilitates interstellar travel. As he awaits the date of his planned return to Earth, the astronaut writes of the love he left behind there, the beauty and solitude of space ,and his fascination with the vortex.