From: Tony Kan (tonykan_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 18:29:44 PST
DJ
Many thanks
Warm regards
Tony Kan
Christchurch
New Zealand
[snip]
Hard SF of a quality I haven't seen in ages, by a young astrophysicist
and SF writer:
"The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe
AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a
creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of
the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien
that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could
truly understand it. It's a perilous journey into the future, however,
for SS Cygni is 245 light-years from Earth, and even though only two
years subjective time will pass on board the Karamojo, the crew will
return to an Earth where five hundred years have passed."
[snip]
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