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The Long Voyage
The Long Voyage
The secret lay hidden at the end of nine landings, and Medusa-dark was one man's search for it--in the strangest journey ever made.
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our eighth landing, all that passed. For R-14 was old again, older than any of the others.
And then, on October sixteenth, Mason opened the door of the locked cabin. It happened quite by accident. One of the arelium-thaxide conduits broke in the Marie Galante's central passageway, and the resulting explosion grounded the central feed line of the instrument equipment. In a trice the passageway was a sheet of flame, rapidly filling with smoke from burning insulation.
Norris, of course, was in the bridge cuddy with locked doors between us and him, and now with the wiring burned through there was no way of signalling him he was wanted for an emergency. In his absence Mason took command.
That passageway ran the full length of the ship. Midway down it was the door leading to the women's lounge. The explosion had jammed that door shut, and smoke was pouring forth from under the sill. All at once one of the women rushed forward to announce hysterically that Mason's wife, Estell
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A very interesting and well-written story. Unique plot, and good characterization. Nice little twist to wrap things up.
This would have been a 5-star except that the author created a very disappointing non-ending.
This would have been a 5-star except that the author created a very disappointing non-ending.
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A mystery, as well as a science-fiction story. A shipload of colonists blasts off on a clandestine journey to a star only their navigator knows. They reach the star and try planet after planet looking for signs of animal life. When they finally find the planet, they discover the navigator's secret.
Nice plotting and good characterizations. It's a story that bears re-reading just to pick up the clues that are left along the way.
Nice plotting and good characterizations. It's a story that bears re-reading just to pick up the clues that are left along the way.
07/15/2013
A mystery, as well as a science-fiction story. A shipload of colonists blasts off on a clandestine journey to a star only their navigator knows. They reach the star and try planet after planet looking for signs of animal life. When they finally find the planet, they discover the navigato's secret.
Nice plotting and good characterizations. It's a story that bears re-reading just to pick up the clues that are left along the way.
Nice plotting and good characterizations. It's a story that bears re-reading just to pick up the clues that are left along the way.
07/15/2013
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