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weekend short fiction recommendation
>Missile Gap
>author: Charles Stross
>page count: about 90
>a Cold War-era Earth suddenly finds itself transported to the other side of the Milky Way, about 1 million years in the future
>the entire planet is projected onto a small corner of a multi-AU radius flat disc
>said disc has the surface area of 1 billion times that of Earth's surface -- can't fire rockets to space because escape velocity has become basically infinite
>a bunch of other alien xenoplanets are similarly projected onto the disc as well, located several months' boat ride away
>US and USSR try to colonoze/explore these xenocontinents in their own ways, making startling discoveries