Beyond Apollo by Malzberg Barry

Author:Malzberg, Barry [Malzberg, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2010-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

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On their first day together in the simulator the Captain, Joseph Jackson, turned to Evans and against the whining and bucking of the machinery, said, “For all we know, we could be on our way to Venus now. Perhaps we aren’t in a laboratory at all. Doesn’t that frighten you?”

Evans shook his head, not willing to speak, trying to hold his teeth against the retching which seemed at any moment calculated to send his insides into the bucket thoughtfully provided. The simulator was bearing down with jolts of eighteen gravities in short bursts to prepare them for the actual shock of acceleration and orbital maneuver, and Evans found himself in and out of consciousness all the time: spacing out the faints with dry heaves and blinding gurgles of pain, waiting for the next jolt. He had never been in the simulator with the Captain before nor had he been under such heavy pressure. But flight time was approaching and he understood that they wanted to move closer to actual conditions and into a dual-occupancy situation. “Nothing frightens me,” Evans said, at that time being distracted by terror and in addition being locked deep into what he would come to think of afterwards as his Gray Period. “There’s nothing that they can do to me that I don’t know…” and then the next jolt hit him like a pint of gin and he found himself gasping, holding on for balance against the slick walls, his shoulders pinned to the floor, his detumescent—in fact, vanishing—phallus sending its own peculiar messages of travail to him. “Well, maybe not,” Evans said.

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