Corbyn, a sentient ramship, is in a race against time. He must slow from near lightspeed in order to fulfil a promise: to return his precious human cargo, PurLeeDah, to her homeworld - a process that requires thousands of years...
Little does Corbyn realise that below him, on PurLeeDah's homeworld - as civilisation collapses and then starts to build again - his regular orbital passage has been noted and he has come to be worshipped as a god.
Scientist Simon Morden delivers a stunning tale of hard SF meeting socio-political development head-on; a follow-up to his critically acclaimed novella
At the Speed of Light
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