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A McC E A S NNE AFFREY AND LIZABETH NN CARBOROUGH A W CORNA’S ORLD To Andy Logan, for feeding bodies as well as creative spirits with her care and attention and delicious dinners while she listened to first draft readings! Contents O NE Roughly six weeks after she had joined the crew of… T WO When at last the Sharazad returned to Maganos Moonbase bearing… T HREE Since Aari was the only one who really understood the… F OUR Once the Linyaari space travelers returned, everything should have been… F IVE Thariinye tracked the Condor’s erratic course from the data sent… S IX “Captain Becker, look,” Acorna said, when he arrived on the… S EVEN Thariinye?” Maati said. “Thariinye, we’ve landed. My arms are pinned. … E IGHT The healing retreat in the hills of the Ancestors, under… N INE The Council meeting was brief. Liriili had been questioned. The… T EN As far as Acorna could see, the problem was not… E LEVEN I think we’d all like to know how you came… T WELVE For the Balakiire, tracing the signal to the blue planet… T HIRTEEN Caravan Harakamian had come to rest at its destination after… F OURTEEN Hafiz would not hear of the Linyaari remaining aboard the… F IFTEEN In the days that followed, Becker staggered around the ship… S IXTEEN The Niriian refugees endured the Linyaari reunion and the subsequent… S EVENTEEN The first invasion of the vine world was both human… E IGHTEEN Ready, Captain,” Mac said. The android was in the cockpit… N INETEEN Rafik, dear boy, and my good Captain Becker, this is… T WENTY The spaceport on narhii-Vhiliinyar took the first hit from the… T -O WENTY NE (No!) Maati’s thought was loud and clear and Aari and… T -T WENTY WO The Condor’s computers found every shortcut between itself and the… T -T WENTY HREE For the first time since the Linyaari inhabited narhii-Vhiliinyar, hordes… GLOSSARY OF TERMS BRIEF NOTES ON THE LINYAARI LANGUAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ÇREDITS BOOKS IN THE ACORNA SERIES COVER COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER One R oughly six weeks after she had joined the crew of the Condor, flagship of Becker Interplanetary Recycling and Salvage Enterprises, Ltd., Acorna sat on “salvage watch” at the helm of the ship, surrounded by the softly glowing console lights in the cockpit and the billions of stars beyond. She felt contented, almost as if she were once more home—back in the first home she could really remember, the mining ship she had shared with her adopted uncles. Behind her for the moment were the intricacies of Linyaari society and culture. Before her instead were the intricacies of the universe as recorded in the notes, tapes, and files of Captain Jonas Becker and his illustrious parent, astrophysicist and salvage magnate Theophilus Becker. To give herself something to do during the long watch, she was charting those notations methodically so that the planets, moons, wormholes, black holes, “pleated” space, “black water” space, and other locations visited by the Beckers could be easily relocated, and the sites where they had once been could be revisited if the need arose. Becker had grumbled at first when she started this chore. Since the death of his adoptive father, Theophilus Becker, from whom he had inherited both the Condor and the salvage business, Jonas Becker had been lord and master of the Condor, with only Roadkill—or RK for short—the huge Makahomian Temple Cat he had rescued from a wreck, for company. Becker didn’t like his belongings tampered with or moved. But Acorna had found plenty of evidence that RK periodically made nests out of the hard copies of the notes, often shredded them when he felt the urge, and, in a few sorry instances, had added his own personal—and remarkably pungent—contributions to them when he was displeased with the state of his shipboard toilet. Though she could easily eradicate the odor and the stains, nothing could make the shredded notes legible again. It was high time someone charted the notes before RK had his way with the lot of them. After a few “reasonable discussions,” Jonas had stopped
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