Stories tagged “departure”
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Spheres
He climbed atop his Quantum Glider, pushed the key into the ignition, and turned it. The sound could be heard for miles, echoing, distorting the landscape around it. And then, with a twist of the throttle, he was away, bound for new worlds full of new ...
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Outbound
There were a series of dull thuds and reverberations as the docking arms pulled back from the hull of the Pontificus. A slight vibration and the chemical engines moved the ship away from the dock, and then a low rumble heard through the engine’s ...
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Making the Trail
The trio of sleek black ships at the end of the pier look far too futuristic to be docked to the large industrial arms. If you stare hard enough, you could just about see the huge engines protected by inches of entropy shielding, with the smaller conve...
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On Patrol: Smooth Departure
Together we headed toward the bridge. I nodded to the chartsman who watched with narrow eyes as we passed by. He would be a navigator in the Air Corp. but on the Heart’s Desire he was part cartographer, part orienteer, but mostly he was surly. Fr...