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Nameless He is built to study one very unusual alien artifact: The Intrigue. And after centuries of hard work and reflection, Nameless He begins to believe that there might not be any machine in the universe as important as the puzzle entrusted in his care.
She walked and he followed, passing through hatches and demon doors before entering a workshop filled with simple types of light. A bubble of vacuum was suspended from the ceiling, and dangling inside the bubble was the corpse of a streakship. Or at least that was what it seemed to be. This was a partial corpse including two hyperfiber fuel tanks, each sphere three kilometers in diameter. One tank was empty, punctured at multiple points -- presumably by relativistic impacts with deep space debris. But while the other tank was identical in size and construction, its surface was intact. Unblemished, mirror-bright. Even the traces of cosmic radiation that streakships always endured were missing. That pristine shine was one of several compelling reasons why this flotsam, whatever it was, has been recognized as being wonderfully odd.
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred published and more than a dozen novels. A winner of the Hugo Award for "A Billion Eves," Reed is best known for his world-sized starship in the Great Ship series.
Genre: Science Fiction
She walked and he followed, passing through hatches and demon doors before entering a workshop filled with simple types of light. A bubble of vacuum was suspended from the ceiling, and dangling inside the bubble was the corpse of a streakship. Or at least that was what it seemed to be. This was a partial corpse including two hyperfiber fuel tanks, each sphere three kilometers in diameter. One tank was empty, punctured at multiple points -- presumably by relativistic impacts with deep space debris. But while the other tank was identical in size and construction, its surface was intact. Unblemished, mirror-bright. Even the traces of cosmic radiation that streakships always endured were missing. That pristine shine was one of several compelling reasons why this flotsam, whatever it was, has been recognized as being wonderfully odd.
Robert Reed is the author of several hundred published and more than a dozen novels. A winner of the Hugo Award for "A Billion Eves," Reed is best known for his world-sized starship in the Great Ship series.
Genre: Science Fiction
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