{"id":283,"date":"2026-01-03T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/technic-02-anderson-poul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:35","slug":"technic-02-anderson-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/technic-02-anderson-poul\/","title":{"rendered":"Technic 02 – Anderson, Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Captain Bahadur Torrance received the news as befitted a Lodgemaster in the Federated Brotherhood of Spacemen.<\/p>\n

He heard it out, interrupting only with a few knowledge-able questions. At the end, he said calmly, \u201cWell done, Freeman Yamamura. Please keep this to yourself till further notice. I\u2019ll think about what\u2019s to be done. Carry on.<\/p>\n

But when the engineer officer had left the cabin-the news had not been the sort you tell on the intercom-he poured himself a triple whiskey, sat down, and stared emptily at the viewscreen.<\/p>\n

He had traveled far, seen much, and been well rewarded.<\/p>\n

However, promotion being swift in his difficult line of work, he was still too young not to feel cold at hearing his death sentence.<\/p>\n

The screen showed such a multitude of stars, hard and winter-brilliant, that only an astronaut could recognize individuals. Torrance sought past the Milky Way until he identified Polaris. Then Valhalla would lie so-and-so many degrees away, in that direction. Not that he could see a type-G sun at this distance, without optical instruments more powerful than any aboard the Hebe G.B.<\/p>\n

But he found a certain comfort in knowing his eyes were sighted toward the nearest League base (houses, ships, humans, nestled in a green valley on Freya) in this almost uncharted section of our galactic arm. Especially when he didn\u2019t expect to land there, ever again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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