Starman’s Quest

Description

The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars- – however at a fabulous cost. Interstellar investigation, colonization, and exchange became things of the real world. The advantages to Earth were huge. But since of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who dispatched out to space would never carry on with a typical life on Earth again.

Book Excerpt

akfast came moving toward him on the plastic transport line from the kitchen.

Alan chuckled and came to energetically for the steaming plate of food. He poured a tad bit of his synthorange juice into a little search for gold, and tumbled to.

Rodent was a local of Bellatrix VII, an Earth-size desolate world that circled the splendid star in the Orion heavenly body. He was an individual from one of the three canny races that mutual the planet with a little settlement of Earthmen.

The Valhalla had made the long outing to Bellatrix, 215 light-years from Earth, right away before Alan’s introduction to the world. Skipper Donnell had won the fellowship of the little animal and had taken him back to the boat when opportunity arrived for the Valhalla to re-visitation of Earth for its next task.