The Centauri Device
The Centauri Device
“She is most anxious to effect an introduction between the two of you.' It was some hours after the conversation in the studio. Truck had bathed, eaten, even slept a bit, and was now nearing the end of Pater's guided tour of Howell (which he did in fact insist on calling 'Versailles').
'But it seems the Device will not abide the dyne fields for more than a second or two at a time, so a journey that should have taken hours is still in progress. They send the transporter into Dynaflow drive an...d — pop! — out it comes again, for no reason that can be discovered.
They have gained a few light days. In it goes again — and so it goes on. A comic process with a real attraction for us.' Pater stood, ridiculously neat and dapper, beneath the great ventral curve of a ship named Driftwood of Decadence, which had squeezed itself into one of the massive repair silos of the asteroid like a wasp in an apple. To his white suit and green carnation he had added a fantastic low-crowned hat of cream straw.MoreLess
'But it seems the Device will not abide the dyne fields for more than a second or two at a time, so a journey that should have taken hours is still in progress. They send the transporter into Dynaflow drive an...d — pop! — out it comes again, for no reason that can be discovered.
They have gained a few light days. In it goes again — and so it goes on. A comic process with a real attraction for us.' Pater stood, ridiculously neat and dapper, beneath the great ventral curve of a ship named Driftwood of Decadence, which had squeezed itself into one of the massive repair silos of the asteroid like a wasp in an apple. To his white suit and green carnation he had added a fantastic low-crowned hat of cream straw.MoreLess
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