Four Hundred Billion Stars (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
AT THE CORE The site of the radio telescope rose in the eastern sky, a low symmetrical cone silhouetted against drifts of stars whose cold light outshone the setting sun. Andrews flew the thopter low and fast over the dead land towards it; unlike Sutter, he was quite unafraid, or his fear was buried beneath the surge of his anticipatory excitement. As for herself, Dorthy felt nothing; her hands trembled lightly if she unclasped them, but perhaps that was no more than exhaustion. At least, that was what she told herself. Andrews had downed a stimtab halfway through the two-hour flight (without an autodoc to advise her what it would do to the biochemistry of her implant, Dorthy dared not follow his example), and as he flew he monotonously tapped the edge of the tiller with his thumb, overflow of nervous energy, flicked his gaze back and forth between the dark landscape and the radar screen with eager expectation. At last he throttled down the vanes and began a long glide in, pointing out the sinuous edge of a canyon on the radar screen.
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