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The Ballad of Beta 2

Samuel R. Delany
3.76/5 (714 ratings)
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Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened.
~ ~~ ~
Joneny, a student of galactic anthropology, was assigned the problem. It had seemed routine to him. Just some faster-than-light travel to the two wrecked ships, a bit of poking around, and then writing up his findings.
~ ~~ ~
But he was ill-prepared for what he found in space at the site of the two ancient wrecks. One, the Sigma-9, was not subject to the laws of time-stasis (the only exception to a universal law), and it was covered entirely with a mysterious green fire that shimmered so much that it seemed alive! And the other ship, the Beta-2, was nowhere to be found. Only a fragment of a mysterious poem could possibly provide a clue.
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Pages:
124 pages
Publication:
1971
Publisher:
Ace
Edition:
2nd Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
044104722X
ISBN13:
9780441047222
kindle Asin:
B009W32XYM

The Ballad of Beta 2

Samuel R. Delany
3.76/5 (714 ratings)
Read Download
Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened.
~ ~~ ~
Joneny, a student of galactic anthropology, was assigned the problem. It had seemed routine to him. Just some faster-than-light travel to the two wrecked ships, a bit of poking around, and then writing up his findings.
~ ~~ ~
But he was ill-prepared for what he found in space at the site of the two ancient wrecks. One, the Sigma-9, was not subject to the laws of time-stasis (the only exception to a universal law), and it was covered entirely with a mysterious green fire that shimmered so much that it seemed alive! And the other ship, the Beta-2, was nowhere to be found. Only a fragment of a mysterious poem could possibly provide a clue.
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Pages:
124 pages
Publication:
1971
Publisher:
Ace
Edition:
2nd Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
044104722X
ISBN13:
9780441047222
kindle Asin:
B009W32XYM

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