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Keeping time.
  1. Beth Cato

    1. Beth Cato resides in Arizona. She’s the author of the Clockwork Dagger duology and the Blood of Earth trilogy with Harper Voyager. Her website is BethCato.com.

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A figure in a futuristic spacesuit stands in front of a glowing portal in a garden

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History books like to focus on pivotal incidents such as peace treaties being signed by world powers, battles won or lost, and marriages brokered between dynasties. Those are all important, but history relies more often on quiet, boring moments that involve no major action, no blood, no drama.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02809-2

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