conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Champion of Mars about White, Dwarf, Death with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: the author is an experienced science-fiction journalist, writer and magazine editor. He has been editor of White Dwarf and Death Ray , among other magazines, and deputy editor of SFX. He is the author of the Richards and Klein series from Angry Robot, and writes for Games Workshop's Black Library.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this story.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Champion of Mars
  She looked up when they came in. She had protruding eyes that made her appear surprised to see them, but she smiled and nodded in a way that suggested she wasn't.
  The woman looked up, eyes still surprised. She stroked a gelscreen and the shield over the window retracted, letting in a wide slot of white light to mix with the blue.
  Holland walked to the window. He was looking into a large cavern, roughly spherical. Eaten out of the rock by the actions of millions of years of acid-producing organisms, it breached the lava tube, its walls and floors fractally pocked with further spheres that gave the rock surface the appearance of bad foamcrete. The lava tube past the airlock veered right and carried off into the dark, but the path turned left, through the tube's broken wall, down a set of metal steps and on to the floor of the cavern. A string of lights on poles and power cables followed it.
  Lights flickered on, along with the whine of machinery coming online. "The centre is now at mission active status."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' Twists of golden thought turn black.'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: He is quiet for a time. His thoughts are clouded with grief. "That is a great shame," he says. He levers himself into a squatting position within the couch. He stays there for a few minutes, shivering from shock and cold. The air gusting through the breaches in the hull is icy and strangely flavoured, and his lungs burn with it.
  Yoechakenon is disoriented. He feels vulnerable, an unaccustomed sensation that fills him with unease.
  I cannot wait for him to ground himself. There is a feeling, a scratching on my skin. It is swift and then gone, but it draws near the ship's bridge. "There is something outside the ship."
  Yoechakenon listens, focussing his hearing on the air beyond the gash in the wall. All he hears is the thin, malignant wind.
  Yoechakenon risks switching his sphere of consciousness. Ours is the connection of the prime degree, higher than the first, lower only than that endured by the Emperor and his spirit twin. Through me, Yoechakenon may feel what I feel, as I may look into his heart and mind. He does so now, interfacing directly with the ship's senses. He grimaces as he experiences the ship's pains. The death pangs of such a large machine are strong. We feel the life draining from the huge hull, feel the canker of madness growing in the ship's mind as Stone Land contamination forces itself between its streams of consciousness. Twists of golden thought turn black.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own.
  As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim.
  We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.
  Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.