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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 - BEGINNING
CHAPTER 2 - PICKING
CHAPTER 3 - CHOOSING
CHAPTER 4 - TRAINING
CHAPTER 5 - LEAVING
CHAPTER 6 - TRAVELING
CHAPTER 7 - HEALING
CHAPTER 8 - STOPPING
CHAPTER 9 - EXPLORING
CHAPTER 10 - LANDING
CHAPTER 11 - FLYING
CHAPTER 12 - FALLING
CHAPTER 13 - CRASHING
CHAPTER 14 - MEETING
CHAPTER 15 - MATING
CHAPTER 16 - TALKING
CHAPTER 17 - FLOATING
CHAPTER 18 - DIVING
CHAPTER 19 - SURFING
CHAPTER 20 - REPORTING
CHAPTER 21 - ENDING
CHAPTER 22 - HEARING
CHAPTER 23 - CASTING
CAVEATS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1—BEGINNING

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The torn shred of aluminum lightsail rippled lightly down through the thin atmosphere and settled onto the
calm ocean. The robot probe the sail had once carried continued on its way back into the interstellar
blackness, its flyby study of the Barnard planetary system completed. The messages of its discoveries
would reach Earth six years later. The microthin film of aluminum sail material was no match for the
ammonia-water ocean covering this egg of a planet. It dissolved into a bitter taste of aluminum hydroxide.

Clear«»White«»Whistle was warming on top of the ocean in the red glare from Hot. Hot suddenly
became less. The darkness was not like that from a storm shadow, but much sharper. It was almost as if
Sky¤Rock had suddenly moved in front of Hot. The darkness came closer, then there was a sharp thin
taste of bitterness in the ocean.

Clear«»White«»Whistle dove under the ocean to escape the bitterness, then came to the surface. The
taste was still there. Another dive—it was there too. A sounding dive a long distance away, it was still