Engine City
“To a photon, the whole history of the universe may be like this: over in a flash, before its had time to blink. To a human, its disorienting. One moment, youre an hour out from the last planet you visitedthen, without transition, youre an hour away from the next.Volkov spent the first of these hours preparing for his arrival, conscious that he would have no time to do so in the second.My name is Grigory Andreievich Volkov. I am two hundred and forty years old, I was born about a hundred th...ousand years ago, and as many light-years away: Kharkov, Russian Federation, Earth, in the year 2018. As a young conscript, I fought in the Ural Caspian Oil War. I was with the first troops to enter Marseilles and to bathe their sore feet in the waters of the Mediterranean. In 2040, I became a cosmonaut of the European Union, and three years later made the first human landing on the surface of Venus. In 2046 I volunteered for work on the space station Marshal Titov, which in 2049 was renamed the Bright Star.MoreLess
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