C. J. Cherryh: Alternate Realities
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Daw Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780886779467
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In Port Eternity Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette, and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from those old storytapes of romance, chivalry, heroism, and betrayal, until a ripple in the space-time continuum sucked The Maid and her crew into a no-man s-land from which there could be no return, and they were left alone to face a crisis which their ancient prototypes were never designed to master . In Wave Without a Shore Freedom was an isolated planet, off the main spaceways and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn t that Freedom was inhospitable, the problem was that outsiders tourists and traders claimed that the streets were crowded with mysterious blue-robed aliens. Native-born humans, however, denied that these aliens existed until a planetary crisis forced a confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question . In Voyager in Night Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian s husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly-built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor. But their future proved to be far stranger than any of them imagined, when a collision with a huge alien vessel provided them with the oddest first contact experience possible '