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Odysseus [MultiFormat]
eBook by John G. Hemry
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Fixing a faster-than-light drive is simple compared to figuring out right and wrong, especially when there's a lot of money involved and especially in space, where ancient tragedies can live on in unexpected ways.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1999
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [216 KB], eReader (PDB) [34 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [20 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [19 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [79 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [91 KB], hiebook (KML) [105 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [46 KB], iSilo (PDB) [17 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [22 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [50 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [32 KB]
Words: 5791
Reading time: 16-23 min.
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It was an accident, really, an accident so improbable as to be within a hair's-breadth of impossible. Yet, every individual human life is the sum of similar vast improbabilities, so the accident may have had a certain cosmic inevitability about it. I don't know. I drive ships for a living, and leave Big Questions to the priests, philosophers and physicists.
My Chief Engineer, Val Steiner, triggered this particular accident. "The primary Umbari Coil's drifted slightly out of alignment. We need to drop out of U-Space long enough to recalibrate." I shrugged in reply. As decisions by a ship's Captain go, this was an easy one. "If we gotta, we gotta. How long will it take?" "Half-a-day. Maybe." "Maybe?" I signaled annoyance with an aggravated frown. Steiner just smiled, secure on her pillar as god of the machinery that made my ship work. "If there's no complications."
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