Space Stations by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers

Author:Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers [Greenberg, Martin H. & Helfers, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
ISBN: 0756401763
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2004-03-02T07:00:00+00:00

There was one good telescope remaining on the Streetcar. It had not been the best of the lot, and so had escaped the prying fingers of Hoshi and Keith Polanger.

Hoshi was training it now to what she sensed was east of the Perseus constellation. She’d made sure the young man was safely stored aboard the pod, and that the oxygen was flowing freely inside. It would revive him soon. She made sure the lenses were carefully fastened down, and that the alien telescope would be able to weather the brunt of the reentry force. He would have left them behind to save her— a woman well into the winter of her life.

Then she’d released the pod and returned to the observatory, and to this one remaining good telescope.

The lenses were far superior to the pair of old forty-inch ones racing away in the pod, though there was no historical significance to them.

East of Perseus, as seen from the middle-north latitudes of Earth. East and…

“There!” she exclaimed. Auriga the Charioteer. The last of the autumn constellations, as would have been seen from her homeland on Japan’s coast had there not been so much artificial light from the cities to block the stars. Auriga in all his glory. Capella, the bright triple star, the Goat. The kids. The open clusters almost three thousand light-years away.

That was where the Streetcar was headed, the largest of the three alien ships towing it. The stars twinkling hotly and intensely beautiful all around.

“Wonderful,” Hoshi said.

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