Tag: Exploration
-
Icarus V
Eighty years was a long time to be asleep. Even with all of the modern advances in medicine, allowing people to slow down their metabolisms without losing too much bone or muscle mass, that long of a trip would take its toll. When Pate shut his eyes back on earth, he’d been a healthy eighty-three…
-
Dead Waters
Wave after wave rose and fell in every direction as far as the eye could see. Most of those waves were relatively calm and placid in their motions but a few broke with white, frothing tops. Most people on The Solstice Dream were the sailors themselves and they hardly took any notice, it seemed, to…
