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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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Lucy and The Journalist also mostly kept to their cabin, but judging from the sounds emanating from behind their closed door, they were not brooding about anything. It sounded as if they might have been playing polo, or doing a bit of water-skiing all mixed in with some pretty serious weight-lifting. All in all it was lucky the state rooms on either side were empty. Even as it was, several pictures fell off the adjoining walls and a stand bearing a pot of Yassaccan lilies mysteriously toppled over.On the third day the great Starship moved into the region of space beyond Proxima Centauri.'We should locate your star any minute - what d'you call it?' asked Captain Bolfass.'The Sun,' said Nettie.'What a beautiful name,' said the gallant Captain, gazing at Nettie's exquisite profile.Nettie nodded. 'It's a beautiful thing.''Hmmm,' agreed the Captain dreamily.'Do you recognize any of the star patterns yet?' asked the Navigational Officer anxiously. It was all very well heading for an unknown destination with such scanty data... but in this case they were all on board a ship that was destined to explode within two days time! The whole venture was crazy, as far as he was concerned, and he had expressed his opinion quite forcibly to Captain Bolfass. Supposing they failed to find the Earth - would they ever find anywhere to land in this remote armpit of the Galaxy? And even if they did, once the Starship had exploded, they would be marooned for well goodness knows how long it would take a rescue fleet to arrive.Nettie shook her head. 'I'm not much cop at astronomy! I'll get the others up on deck.'But neither Dan nor Lucy had any more idea than Nettie about the local constellations, and Rodden shook his head wearily at the Earth folks' ignorance.But worse was to come.'Look!' Rodden suddenly exclaimed. 'D'you see that star! There! That must be your Sun!'And so it proved to be. Within the hour the Starship was slowing down, and they could clearly see the Sun as a tiny disc.
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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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Lucy and The Journalist also mostly kept to their cabin, but judging from the sounds emanating from behind their closed door, they were not brooding about anything. It sounded as if they might have been playing polo, or doing a bit of water-skiing all mixed in with some pretty serious weight-lifting. All in all it was lucky the state rooms on either side were empty. Even as it was, several pictures fell off the adjoining walls and a stand bearing a pot of Yassaccan lilies mysteriously toppled over.On the third day the great Starship moved into the region of space beyond Proxima Centauri.'We should locate your star any minute - what d'you call it?' asked Captain Bolfass.'The Sun,' said Nettie.'What a beautiful name,' said the gallant Captain, gazing at Nettie's exquisite profile.Nettie nodded. 'It's a beautiful thing.''Hmmm,' agreed the Captain dreamily.'Do you recognize any of the star patterns yet?' asked the Navigational Officer anxiously. It was all very well heading for an unknown destination with such scanty data... but in this case they were all on board a ship that was destined to explode within two days time! The whole venture was crazy, as far as he was concerned, and he had expressed his opinion quite forcibly to Captain Bolfass. Supposing they failed to find the Earth - would they ever find anywhere to land in this remote armpit of the Galaxy? And even if they did, once the Starship had exploded, they would be marooned for well goodness knows how long it would take a rescue fleet to arrive.Nettie shook her head. 'I'm not much cop at astronomy! I'll get the others up on deck.'But neither Dan nor Lucy had any more idea than Nettie about the local constellations, and Rodden shook his head wearily at the Earth folks' ignorance.But worse was to come.'Look!' Rodden suddenly exclaimed. 'D'you see that star! There! That must be your Sun!'And so it proved to be. Within the hour the Starship was slowing down, and they could clearly see the Sun as a tiny disc.
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