Long Odds, Episode 4: Foundation Seed
A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. After the first outbound quarantine in the Survey's history, biologist Owen Tate crosses from Nevada at dial four and finds a Humboldt valley of perennial wheat and fifty thousand sandhill cranes. The seed that could change farming at home lives in one old woman's seed station on a bend of the river, and bringing it home will cost more than anyone planned. Long Odds is an anthology about…
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