(Cover Matt Stawicki)
Publisher: SFBC (USA)
ISBN: 0-7394-1486-0
Publication Date: 2001
John Grimes: Lieutenant Of The Survey Service 2001
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.