Anti-ice by Stephen Baxter

Author:Stephen Baxter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Imaginary histories, Cosmochemistry, Fiction, Science Fiction, General, Power resources
ISBN: 9780061054211
Publisher: HarperPrism, 1994.
Published: 1994-09-25T23:00:00+00:00

8

A DEBATE

The days that followed were a blur. My perambulation through space had left my systems drained.

And the strange environment of the Phaeton—the floating conditions, the rhythm of day and night

marked only by the habitual routines of Pocket and Holden (Traveller, buried in his Bridge, was

never to be seen now in the Smoking Cabin), the smoky, still air that made one long to hurl open a

window—all of this combined to immerse me in a dreamlike state. Perhaps our isolation from the

natural conditions of Earth had something to do with my distracted mental state; perhaps our human

bodies are more bound than we know to the diurnal rhythms of our mother world.

I was disturbed several times, however, by a roaring sound, a gentle pressure that pushed me deeper

into my cot. At such times I vaguely wondered if I had traveled through time as well as through the

vacuum and had somehow been returned to those nightmare moments of the launch of the Phaeton

into space. But each disturbance faded after a few seconds; and each time I relapsed into my

unnatural slumber. I learned later that my connection of these events with the launch was not

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