Publisher: Baen Books (USA)
Edition: e-book
ISBN: 0-441-31755-3
Publication Date: 2007
The Hard Way Up 2007
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.