Prophet Margin by Simon Spurrier

Author:Simon Spurrier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books

The Kostadell Zol asteroid tumbled through the void like a bowling ball, careening towards whatever galactic skittles had taken its fancy. Leaving behind the star that had supported it for so long, its day and night cycles became a blue blur, punctuated by the flash-flicker of an dwindling sun. The heavens became a dizzying kaleidoscope, tumbling over and around like some cheap special effect, stuck on a loop. If anyone had been staring at it, it might have seemed pretty impressive.

As it was, very few people were paying much attention to the stars.

The asteroid was shaking off its tourists. As its rotational velocity increased the centrifugal spin went beyond simply negating its inherent gravity, becoming instead an expelling force that pushed everything outwards from its centre. As the revolutions sped whole crowds found themselves floating upwards to be pinned to the inside surfaces of the oxygen dome, crushed outwards like fluids in a centrifuge. Thus scattered, butterflies pinned to the page, they stared down at the landscape below and alternately shrieked or laughed as their narcotic consumption dictated.

That might have been the end of their ordeal, had there not been a vast artificial ocean to take into account.

Slowly at first, in incremental bursts of droplets that licked higher and higher above each wave, the sea rose into the sky. When the surface broke apart, hurled upwards by the violence of the asteroid's revolutions, even those holidaymakers still chortling in narcotic amusement began to scream.

They were drowned upside down.

Wulf stayed inside the control room and thanked his lucky stars for the presence of a sturdy roof.

The roof began to crack.

"This is not being fair!"

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