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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The 7000-passenger ship left Earth for Centauri five generations ago on a trip that should have lasted twelve years. They didn't count on the drive freezing up in permanent full-bore thrust and the deceleration components getting fried…

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Perpetual Light, ed. Alan Ryan, 1982
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2000

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Words: 8598
Reading time: 24-34 min.
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The vast ship of which they were a part was heading through the narrow corridor between two major spiral galaxies. On the right side of the dome the bulge of one galaxy was like a whirlpool of light, the points of light like grains of sand caught in a vortex. Around the bright core, glowing clouds of the spiral arms wended their way through the flat disk, seeming to cut through the dark dust clouds like a river slicing through jungle. Here and there black towers reared up out of the confusion of the disk, where masses of interstellar debris had been heaved out of the galactic plane, driven by collisions between clouds, or explosions of young stars.

There were intelligent, technological societies somewhere among those drifting stars. The ship had picked up their transmissions long ago--radio, UV, the usual--and had altered course to pass nearby.