A sense of fatality settled on them all. Eternity stretched ahead of them, and eternity lay behind. They were rejected by the spinning worlds of the cosmos: they were doomed to wander out across the vastness of interstellar space with no hope, no promise of rest and contentment at last. &nb...
At breakfast a few days before the ceremony, Elizabeth looked at me with the first sign of awkwardness I had detected in her. Timidly she said: “Victor . . . I’ve invited Paul to the wedding.” It was alien to her nature to have any secrets, and I wa...
The clock showed its hours and days, but although you accepted its figures as a working basis you didn’t really believe them. Between blast-off and reentry there was a weightless, timeless suspension in nothingness. The ship didn’t seem to move. You went through regular checks and routines, but t...