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Chapter 10
Dr. Katherine nodded. “The third voyage of Odysseus, you say? Well that’s an easy one.” “Is it?” “Yes. There isn’t one.” “Oh.” “But….” She paused, a finger in the air, concentration on her face. “Come to think of it, there should have been, I believe.” Aneirin looked up. She pulled a volume from the wall [...]
Chapter 11
Elizabeth Browning Barrett’s name was a joke that almost nobody had gotten even back on Earth. She was not actually a cook, she was an administrator, a bureaucrat. However, when the cook who the ship had hired, in those heady early days, turned out to be a man who could make a mean soufflé but [...]
Chapter 12
In the snack kitchen, Aneirin ran into the Mcilwane brothers. All three of them, in good spirits as ever. “Hey, Aneirin! Come by for a beer?” He thought that was John, the older one. He nodded and sat down. “Well my friend, have I got a treat for you. My own recipe. The new batch [...]
Chapter 13
He dreamed he was sitting on the prow of the ship, in the middle of space. Sometimes he forgot how beautiful it really was. The silence was terrifying, the unblinking eyes of the stars could drive you mad if you thought about them for long enough, but it was the most incredible sight one could [...]
Chapter 14
The tall shadowed figure waved his hand at the communications room monitor. “Show me another.” A boat is on the shingle, gray, just above the waterline. Hard to see. A longboat. No one in the village put it there. Night is falling. A man peers out his cottage door, then slams it shut. Night is [...]
Chapter 15
Elizabeth counted in her head, at the giant stars roaming outside the port windows. Her cattle of the sun, here before any sun would have risen, on black pastures, and she was counting cups of milk for oatmeal. Never forget, she thought to herself, that there was a long long time where none of this [...]
Chapter 16
The Earth the Argo had left had not been in great shape. The first major upheaval occurred in 2030 when America broke apart. In a way, as a nation increasingly unable to give up or properly tend to all of its priorities, it was a long time coming. The right’s firm belief, since Reagan, in [...]
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