Nine by Drew Wagar

Author:Drew Wagar [Wagar, Drew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 2008-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

It was too late to turn back now. He'd sold his house, all his possessions and traded his family fortune to finance the research, the equipment, the hire of a long range freighter and escorts for this field trip. It had become a hugely expensive undertaking. If this didn't provide the answer he desired, he would be effectively destitute.

Now here he was, in chart eight, ready to jump.

There had been a number of discoveries en-route, which had helped with support and assistance from a few quarters. The construction of a stable static wormhole between localised points had been one. It had been hugely satisfying to see a small ship move across a few kilometres of space in the blink of an eye between two artificially sustained wormhole entrances, and even more compelling to see the ship sit stationary in the double gate, half of it facing in one direction, and the other half of it ten kilometres away facing the other way – yet still whole and undamaged!

Another highpoint was storing not only enough energy for a single galactic hyperspace jump, but two. He had to have a means of returning after all!

Raan held a letter in his hand, and idly glanced at it. It was a letter from his daughter, handwritten, on parchment.

Sassia refused to be a party to his quest. They had undergone blazing rows and finally stopped talking. Her last communication had been brief.

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