{"id":1281,"date":"2026-01-03T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/gossamer-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:07","slug":"gossamer-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/gossamer-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossamer – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The flitter bucked. Lvov looked up from her data desk, startled. Beyond the flitter’s translucent hull, the wormhole was flooded with sheets of blue-white light which raced toward and past the flitter, giving Lvov the impression of huge, uncontrolled speed. <\/p>\n

“We’ve got a problem,” Cobh said. The pilot bent over her own data desk, a frown creasing her thin face. <\/p>\n

Lvov had been listening to her data desk’s synthesized murmur on temperature inversion layers in nitrogen atmospheres; now she tapped the desk to shut it off. The flitter was a transparent tube, deceptively warm and comfortable. Impossibly fragile. <\/p>\n

Astronauts have problems in space, <\/i> she thought. But not me. I’m no hero; I’m only a<\/i> researcher. <\/i> Lvov was twenty-eight years old; she had no plans to die\u2014and certainly not during a routine four-hour hop through a Poole wormhole that had been human-rated for eighty years. <\/p>\n

She clung to her desk, her knuckles whitening, wondering if she ought to feel scared. <\/p>\n

Cobh sighed and pushed her data desk away; it floated before her. “Close up your suit and buckle up.” <\/p>\n

Our speed through the wormhole has increased.” Cobh pulled her own restraint harness around her. “We’ll reach the terminus in another minute\u2014” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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