(Cover Naoyuki Kato)
Publisher: Hayakawa Shobô (Japan)
Edition: 174
Publication Date: 1975
Renraku Uchûkan Hassin Seyo 1975
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.