Аннотация
TriPoint
by C. J. Cherryh
Chapter One
—i—
DREAM OF AN INTERFACE OF ENERGIES above the Einstein limit.
Dream of a phase-storm skimming what it can't envelop—until the storm slides down, down, down the nearest gravity-pit—
In this case, E. Eridani. Viking, Unionside, with ties to Pell, on the Alliance side of the line.
Shipyards and industry. Trade. Mining.
Hydrogen glows in the bow-shock. The ship dives for thermonuclear hell.
The field re-shapes itself. Almost. Once. Twice.
Becomes Sprite, inbound for the habitation zone.
The ring engages.
Body settles to the mattress.
Breaths come Viking-time now, ten, fifteen to the caesium-timed minute. Heart fibrillates and finds its beat.
Right hand gropes after the nutri-pack, left hand flutters off-target, trying to pull the tab. Hand to mouth is another targeting problem.
God-bloody-awful, going down. But if a man lay v...
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