The Shobies' Story

The Nebula Award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness delivers another brilliant sci-fi work. In this Hainish story, a crew of ten embark on a test flight on a starship with a new experimental star drive that would make Nearly-as-Fast-as-Light flight obsolete.

First published in the short story anthology Universe 1, ed. Karen Haber, Robert Silverberg.