"Wen Spencer - Endless Blue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Spencer Wen)

13Red Gold

14Blue Blood

15Promises to Keep

16Parting is such sweet sorrow

17The Time Has Come To Talk of Many Things

18Of shoes and ships and sealing wax

19Temple Island

20You say tomato . .

21War Room

22Mary's Landing

23The Seraphim Thingy

24Georgetown

25Out of the Blue

Acknowledgements

Greg Armstong, David Brukman (of the North), Ann Cecil, Andrew Heward, W. Randy Hoffman,
Nancy Janda, John Schmid, Linda A. Sprinkle and special thanks to Eraphie.

To the House of Mews

Nancy Janda, Lara Van Winkle and Amy Finkbinder. So much creativity in one place, it's amazing it
doesn't collapse down into a black hole.

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Out of the Blue

At first Captain Mikhail Ivanovich Volkov couldn't comprehend what he was looking at in the cavernous
drydock of Plymouth Space Station. From the observation window where Mikhail stood, the thing
tethered in the zero gravity looked like a rough pebble, or, considering the vastness of the dry dock, a
boulder. The rock's bottom was bulbous and rough, as if it had been scooped out of bedrock, but
halfway up the edges smoothed to gently curved walls. Only when he forced himself to look at the upper
section by itself, did he realize what the boulder truly was: a ship's warp drive imbedded in rock.
 Judging by the housing protruding out of twenty meters of stone, the drive was from a very large ship,
most likely a carrier. Its manifolds were buried somewhere in the stoneтАФwhich didn't make sense. An
impact hard enough bury the drive that far into rock should have shattered it. The walls of the housing,
however, seemed intact, although coated with a white material.