His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a
tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers
and fake names.
Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of
the powerful family whose mighty starship, Dublin Again,
was the true queen of the spaceways.
They met at Viking Station, she seeking a night's dalliance, he
desperately in search of a spacer assistant.
Their fateful meeting was to lead to a record-breaking race to
Downbelow Station, thereby catching the calculating eye of the
grim commander of the Alliance battlecraft, Norway, and
a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.
C. J. Cherryh (born 1942) is the pen name of Carolyn Janice Cherry, a multiple-award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. She currently resides in Spokane County, Washington. Cherryh is pronounced ”Cherry”. The author appended a silent ”h” to her real name because her first editor felt that ”Cherry” sounded too much like a romance writer. The asteroid 77185 Cherryh has been named in her honour.
