It was no place for a man to be.
Men were tissue, blood, bone, nerve. This place was not made for them. It was made for fire and force and radiation. Go home,...
Home, the spaceship's pilot, had been warned. "Don't forget the meteor swarm." And Home's directional calculations for the Vega Queen's course took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand miles out of its way to avoid...