author - "Tom Godwin"
The cruiser vanished back into hyperspace and he was alone in the observation bubble, ten thousand light-years beyond the galaxy's outermost sun. He looked out the windows at the gigantic sea of emptiness around him and wondered again what the danger had been that had so terrified the men before him.Of one thing he was already certain; he would find that nothing was waiting outside the bubble to kill him. The first bubble attendant had committed suicide and the second was a mindless maniac on
the New Jardeen Incident."A frozen silence followed the last five words. Hunter thought, So that's what the little weasel was fishing for.... Rockford quietly laid down his fork. Val's face turned grim. Lyla looked up in quick alarm and said to Narf: "Let's not--" "Don't misunderstand me, gentlemen," Narf's loud voice went on. "I believe the commander of the Terran cruiser wouldn't have ordered it to fire upon the Verdam cruiser over a neutral world such as New
The cruiser vanished back into hyperspace and he was alone in the observation bubble, ten thousand light-years beyond the galaxy's outermost sun. He looked out the windows at the gigantic sea of emptiness around him and wondered again what the danger had been that had so terrified the men before him.Of one thing he was already certain; he would find that nothing was waiting outside the bubble to kill him. The first bubble attendant had committed suicide and the second was a mindless maniac on
the New Jardeen Incident."A frozen silence followed the last five words. Hunter thought, So that's what the little weasel was fishing for.... Rockford quietly laid down his fork. Val's face turned grim. Lyla looked up in quick alarm and said to Narf: "Let's not--" "Don't misunderstand me, gentlemen," Narf's loud voice went on. "I believe the commander of the Terran cruiser wouldn't have ordered it to fire upon the Verdam cruiser over a neutral world such as New