July 9, 2193.
The crew of the space cruiser Amundsen hurtle towards the outer Oort Cloud at half a million miles an hour. A group of pilots, scientists, and engineers from all over the world are on humanity’s first mission into interstellar space.
Katerina Malkova, engineer and philologist, looks up from her work and glances out into the icy void. “I won…
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