The Outcasts of Heaven Belt by Joan D. Vinge

Author:Joan D. Vinge
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: &WORKING, Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780708880739
Publisher: London : Macdonald Futura, 1980, c1978.
Published: 1980-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Then don’t,” Shadow Jack said, and more gently, “It’ll be over soon, Bird Alyn; we don’t have to get used to it.” He flipped playing cards out into the air, watching their incredibly swift plummet to the rug.

“Look who finally woke up.” He looked back over his shoulder; the cat sidled past his head and sat down on the cards.

Wadie bowed casually, carefully keeping his bal-ance. No one moved in return, and indignation rose in him until he remembered that he couldn’t expect civil-ity here. Pirates . . . He almost smiled, struck by the memory of what it had meant to be called a Belter, once, in the time when the only Asteroid Belt was Sol’s. He studied the captain’s face, clean now like her fair cropped hair; met something in her eyes that startled him. She glanced down, lighting a pipe. The tangy sweetness of whatever burned stirred memories in him, instinctive, of things he had never seen.

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