By Robert J. Sawyer

20 years after the invention of man-made wormholes launches Earth area exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that quickly threatens the station with intergalactic conflict.

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Thor operated controls. " Starplex closed the twenty kilometers between itself and the shortcut, and then it touched the point. The shortcut expanded to accommodate the ship's diamond-shaped profile, fiery purple lips matching the giant mothership's shape. As Starplex passed through, the holographic bubble surrounding the bridge showed the two mismatched starfields, and the stormy discontinuity between hem that moved from bow to stern as they completed their passage. As soon as the ship was all the way through, the shortcut shrank back down to nothingness.

Oh, he could see the clock face when standing in the bedroom, and he could always reach over and bend down the plastic card to look at it in bed if he was really curious, but it helped. Sometimes, that is. But not tonight. Tonight, he tossed and turned. Tonight, he relived the encounter in the corridor with Jag. Jag. Perfect name for the bastard. Keith rolled onto his left side. Jag was currently running a series of professional-development seminars for those Starplex staff members who wanted to know more physics; Rissa was running a similar series for those who wanted to learn some more biology.

The argument that individuals had to die in order to allow the race to advance no longer applied. Boxcar and Rissa were trying to increase the lifespans of the Commonwealth races. The problem was daunting; so much of how life worked still remained mysterious. Rissa doubted that the riddle of aging would be solved in her lifetime, although within a century someone would likely find the key. The irony was not lost on her: Clarissa Cervantes, senescence researcher, probably belonged to the final human generation that would know death.

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