Aptitude

Don't miss Cooper Shrivastava's engrossing hard sci-fi story "e;Aptitude"e;, a Tor.com OriginalAlena has momentarily escaped her world and its imminent gravitational collapse by cheating her way into the selection process of the Board of Cosmogamy. By passing this stringent exam, she may finally learn the secrets of building a universe from first principles. But the competition is smarter...