Publisher: Baen Books (USA)
Edition: e-Book
ISBN: 0-7394-3965-0
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Catch the Star Winds 2007
Novella
I'm a sort of exception that proves the rule.
And that, oddly enough, is my name - George Rule, currently master in the employ of the Dog Star Line, one of the few independent shipping companies in the Federation able to compete successfully with the state-owned Interstellar Transport Commission. When I was much younger I used to be called, rather to my embarrassment, Golden Rule. That was when my hair, which I tend to wear long, and my beard were brightly blond. But, given time, everything fades, and my nickname has faded away with my original colouring. In uniform I'm just another tramp master - and the Odd Gods of the Galaxy know that there are plenty of such in the Universe!- and out of uniform I could be the man come to fix the robochef. It's odd- or is it?- how those engaged in that particular branch of robotics tend to run to fat . . .