(Cover George Barr)
Publisher: Ace (USA)
ISBN: 0-441-73101-5
Publication Date: 1980
The Hard Way Up 1980
Short Story
It shouldn't have been there.
Nothing at all should have been there, save for the sparse drift of hydrogen atoms that did nothing at all to mitigate the hard vacuum of interstellar space, and save for the Courier Adder, proceeding on her lawful occasions.