Love and Rockets by Martin H. Greenberg

Author:Martin H. Greenberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

Two shots of slivovitz down that night, and still sleep would not come. Haunted. After an hour of this, Loren sat up in her bunk and turned on the console, then pulled up the entertainment files. Old stories, she liked; the oldest, ones that took place on Earth.

A planet she had never seen.

A planet no one she knew had ever seen.

You’d have to be nearly two centuries old to have any memories of Earth. And, while technically possible, people of that age were vanishingly rare. At least the sort of people she knew.

The Consort probably knew Earthlings among the senior Crew . . .

“Stop it,” she whispered, and continued searching through her files.

A Regency romance: a tale of love and unattainability. A man of the highest station, one who is betrothed to a woman of his caste. A simple girl, humble, shy, making her way through edges of someone else’s fairy tale. An accidental encounter, and then another; a brush of the arm; a casual exchange . . . Loren laughed at herself, but reread the story anyway, savoring every word.

When she was finished, she wanted to weep.

Of course, everything was backward, just all wrong, here in the real world. Nothing like the stories. For it to be a true romance, the Consort should have offered to carry the carryall today, not sent Loren on her way with a sharp word.

And she should be a stolen child of the aristocracy—a princess in disguise, or hidden, through some astonishing mix-up of fortune. Awaiting discovery of her rightful place . . . and the hand of her prince.

But no. Loren was already in her rightful place, and lucky to have it. Her workshift was not onerous, her teammates were decent and engaging, and Gramma Francesca was a benevolent work gang boss. She’d heard stories, knew how it could be.

So why did she feel as though her life was being wasted, one unendurable sliver at a time?

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