A billion-year-old alien ship. A great treasure. A great danger.

With a last surge of the main drive, Barnet matched our bearing and speed with the alien derelict.

Twisted lines of tubing and conduit curled around the hull. After a billion years, micrometeor collisions had sandblasted the ship to a dull finish.

But behind that battered surface might lurk exotic materials beyond the manufacturing capability of any human world. Magnetic monopoles, dyons, condensed matter. Even a tiny amount delivered to Earth or a major world could set up a crew for life.

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The First Voyages: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 1998-2012 (The Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich) (Volume 1)

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The First Voyages: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 1998-2012 (The Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich) (Volume 1)

Stage Separations: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2013-2018

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Stage Separations: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2013-2018

Constitution 2050

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Constitution 2050

Five From the Borderlands

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Five From the Borderlands

Writer of Futures

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Writer of Futures

Orbital Maneuvers: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2019-2020

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Orbital Maneuvers: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2019-2020

Galactic Olympics: Five Science Fiction Sports Stories

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Galactic Olympics: Five Science Fiction Sports Stories