The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
That was because he lived there. He had lived in the Core all his life and had no desire ever to leave it. Achiever knew that there were a lot of highly interesting things Outside. However, he also knew how dangerous those interesting things might be, and so he had no more desire to see them for himself than did any other Heechee. (Not that Achiever thought of himself as a “Heechee.” That was a human word. Achiever at that point had never heard it, and was not going to like it when he did.) The flight for which Achiever was preparing certainly was not intended to take him Outside—though, curiously, his ship happened to be one of the few in the Heechee fleet that could actually have made the journey. It was also one of the larger Heechee ships, and so it would have flabbergasted any of those early Gateway prospectors if they had ever seen it. Any one of the Ones and Threes and Fives those early adventurers flew could have fit easily into one of its cargo holds. Cargo was what Achiever’s mission was all about.
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