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Escape Horizon [MultiFormat]
eBook by Michael A. Burstein
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Ilona Carrus and Damon Adlus are the final competitors in the Championship Dive, a contest to get as close to the event horizon of a black hole as possible. But when Ilona comes up with a way to get closer than anyone ever has before, Damon chooses to take the most dangerous risk of them all...
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [76 KB], eReader (PDB) [29 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [16 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [15 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [67 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [86 KB], hiebook (KML) [47 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [44 KB], iSilo (PDB) [13 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [17 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [45 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 5110
Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The black hole and its glowing accretion disk filled my viewscreen. Like a gaping mouth, it dared me to come close, begging for its meal. An odd image to put on my viewscreen, perhaps, but it calmed me down a lot more than the Championship Dive pre-contest interstellar broadcast I had been watching. Staring directly into the black hole, the quiet peacefulness I imagined inside helped relax me. I knew it was all my imagination, of course, but it worked, as I knew it would. I'd been in this position many times before.
Just as I was in a state of utter relaxation, the radio beeped. I toggled the switch to answer it. "Base One, Carrus here, over," I said, just as I realized that I was incorrect. "Hi, Ilona! It's not Base One." I smiled; leave it to Damon Adlus to figure out a way to hack into the radio system and get in touch. "Hi, Damon. What's down? I can't talk for too long."
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