| Author: | Edward Elmer Smith | ISBN: | 9782819902225 |
| Publisher: | Release Date: November 27, 2011 | Publication: | November 27, 2011 |
| Imprint: | pubOne.info | Language: | English |
| Author: | Edward Elmer Smith |
| ISBN: | 9782819902225 |
| Publisher: | Release Date: November 27, 2011 |
| Publication: | November 27, 2011 |
| Imprint: | pubOne.info |
| Language: | English |
Apparently motionless to her passengers and crew, the Interplanetary liner Hyperion bored serenely onward through space at normal acceleration. In the railed-off sanctum in one corner of the control room a bell tinkled, a smothered whirr was heard, and Captain Bradley frowned as he studied the brief message upon the tape of the recorder – a message flashed to his desk from the operator's panel. He beckoned, and the second officer, whose watch it now was, read aloud: Reports of scout patrols still negative. Still negative. The officer scowled in thought. They've already searched beyond the widest possible location of the wreckage, too. Two unexplained disappearances inside a month – first the Dione, then the Rhea – and not a plate nor a lifeboat recovered. Looks bad, sir. One might be an accident; two might possibly be a coincidence.... His voice died away. What might that coincidence mean? But at three it would get to be a habit, the captain finished the thought. "And whatever happened, happened quick
Apparently motionless to her passengers and crew, the Interplanetary liner Hyperion bored serenely onward through space at normal acceleration. In the railed-off sanctum in one corner of the control room a bell tinkled, a smothered whirr was heard, and Captain Bradley frowned as he studied the brief message upon the tape of the recorder – a message flashed to his desk from the operator's panel. He beckoned, and the second officer, whose watch it now was, read aloud: Reports of scout patrols still negative. Still negative. The officer scowled in thought. They've already searched beyond the widest possible location of the wreckage, too. Two unexplained disappearances inside a month – first the Dione, then the Rhea – and not a plate nor a lifeboat recovered. Looks bad, sir. One might be an accident; two might possibly be a coincidence.... His voice died away. What might that coincidence mean? But at three it would get to be a habit, the captain finished the thought. "And whatever happened, happened quick
