Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
By Mike Combs
()
About this ebook
An astronomer makes a startling discovery in the depths of the outer solar system.
This story might be enjoyed by anyone interested in mega-structures or in the speculations of Prof. Freeman Dyson.
Read more from Mike Combs
The Right Question Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeadly Debris Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf Not for the Fall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArticles from the Orbital Frontier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bridge to Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCondemned to Repeat It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarren Knoll Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesigning Paradise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImprobable Events Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOptimal Solar System Locations for Orbital Habitats Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJourney to Alfahsfere Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParable of the Red World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhose Image? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiranda and the Space Pirates or How Haven Rock Was Saved Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Next Best Thing to Being There Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Land of Eternal Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
Related ebooks
The Darwin Oversight Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Around Distant Suns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrison Earth: Not Guilty as Charged Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Judgement Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5To the Shores of Tripoli Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Science Knows: And How It Knows It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAltitude of Kings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadows of Athens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meat Suit Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Indians Won Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Clash of Spies: The Phoenix Project, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJustice in an Age of Metal and Men: Metal and Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Patrick Henry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColliding Galaxies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Shamus in the Green Room Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Trikon Deception Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dueling Machine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPassages in the Void: Mortal Passage, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unorthodox Soldier: The Phoenix Project, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe List of 7 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Missing Sixth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJack Hagee: No Free Lunch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAppointment in Tomorrow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5WYNADOTTÉ (Historical Novel): The Hutted Knoll - Historical Novel Set during the American Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Variable Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntergalactic Stories: 60+ SF Classics in One Edition (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDespoilers of the Golden Empire Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5First Contact Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDr. Strangelove Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Science Fiction For You
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contact Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Machine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cryptonomicon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brandon Sanderson: Best Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: Secret Projects, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oona Out of Order: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tommyknockers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rendezvous with Rama Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark - Mike Combs
Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
by Mike Combs
mikecombs@aol.com
Copyright © 2004
Cover illustration by Don Davis
Well, Dyson's gone and topped himself again.
Oh yeah,
I replied, So exactly how does one top spheres the size of solar systems and trees on comets?
Actually, Keith, his newest idea kinda relates to the comet trees. Kinda sorta,
Danny responded.
Danny Treece has the office next to mine here at the Wilcox Observatory. I'd made the mistake of poking my head in to say hi, and now it was starting to look like I might as well sit down. Danny had just gotten back from a conference at JPL where he'd heard the Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson give a lecture. Now it looks like he was on fire with yet another new space proposal, so I had a sermon in store.
I knew I should humor Danny, as he was doubtless my best friend here at the observatory. The proximity of our offices, combined with the similarity of our areas of work pretty much made a friendship inevitable. We both specialized in minor bodies; he in Near Earth Objects or NEOs, as well as Main Belt objects, I in Kuiper Belt Objects or KBOs in that more-distant ring of iceteroids. I've certainly found that Danny's expertise in fixing orbital plots for objects with only two or three observations has helped me out on more than one occasion. He was also, so far as I could tell, the only dwarf working in the