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The Great Ship has been wandering the galaxy for 90,000 years. Which isn't very long at all. Something amazing and far more ancient is about to collide with the Ship, and the Remoras will do anything to reach the prize first.
"That one eye was once alive, fully and utterly alive, and the body and mind attached to the eye were healthy, possessed by the certainty that nothing would ever go seriously wrong. Yet in the middle of a routine moment, everything went wrong. Other eyes and minds were close by. Each of these vital beings was riding a fine ship, rockets opened to full throttle, pushing colonists to some world far too distant to be seen. Then there was no one else. The others were missing. What happened to them? And where did the ship go? And why was this single creature tumbling through the blackness, screaming hard with a mouth barely born?
"He was scared, far too scared to think along proper lines, and he spun wildly. Then after considerable work he managed to quit weeping, yet he couldn't stop tumbling, stars sweeping past his lidless gaze.
"What had gone so horribly wrong?"
Robert Reed has written extensively about the Great Ship and its immortal crew and passengers. "The Sarcophagus" is a very recent work.
Genre: Science Fiction
"That one eye was once alive, fully and utterly alive, and the body and mind attached to the eye were healthy, possessed by the certainty that nothing would ever go seriously wrong. Yet in the middle of a routine moment, everything went wrong. Other eyes and minds were close by. Each of these vital beings was riding a fine ship, rockets opened to full throttle, pushing colonists to some world far too distant to be seen. Then there was no one else. The others were missing. What happened to them? And where did the ship go? And why was this single creature tumbling through the blackness, screaming hard with a mouth barely born?
"He was scared, far too scared to think along proper lines, and he spun wildly. Then after considerable work he managed to quit weeping, yet he couldn't stop tumbling, stars sweeping past his lidless gaze.
"What had gone so horribly wrong?"
Robert Reed has written extensively about the Great Ship and its immortal crew and passengers. "The Sarcophagus" is a very recent work.
Genre: Science Fiction
Used availability for Robert Reed's The Sarcophagus