Second paragraph of third section:

Human formalwear was a deep research hole. Some of this stuff went back four or five hundred years. Avi decided to give Andy a new interest in life and started saving images to his feeds. Could he get a cravat? No. A tie, though? Did he want a tie? Avi stopped and read on some zunimmer hobbyist’s page a brute-force machine translation of what had probably been an article in T-Standard to start with, all about the origin of the necktie. Of fucking course it was a military thing. Station popped up in the corner of his vision with a cheery little message: It looks like you’re researching human history! This is a controversial topic, so would you like to hear from an expert?

This is a short (22 pages) postscript to the Hugo-winning Some Desperate Glory, written for those of us who attended Novacon last month. Emily Tesh writes, “It follows the thread of the parallel-reality engineer Avicenna, who is both a secondary protagonist and a major antagonist in Some Desperate Glory. I have to confess he was always my favourite character, and it was a pleasure to write about him again.” It is a nice little story of redemption, with some cracking good lines. Hopefully it will get published more widely eventually.