A Space Oddessey 2061 Book 3 Chapter 42: Minilith Table PART V: THROUGH THE ASTEROIDS

A Space Oddessey 2061 Book 3 Chapter 42: Minilith Table PART V: THROUGH THE ASTEROIDS

This time, Floyd was quite sure he was dreaming... He had never been able to sleep well in zero gravity, and Universe was now coasting, unpowered, at maximum velocity. In two days it would start almost a week of steady deceleration, throwing away its enormous excess speed until it was able to rendezvous with Europa. However many times he adjusted the restraining straps, they always seemed either too tight or too loose. He would have difficulty in breathing - or else he would find himself drifting out of his bunk. Once he had awoken in mid-air, and had flailed away for several minutes until, exhausted, he had managed to 'swim' the few metres to the nearest wall. Not until then had he remembered that he should merely have waited; the room ventilating system would have soon pulled him to the exhaust grille without any exertion on his part. As a seasoned space-traveller, he knew this perfectly well; his only excuse was simple panic. But tonight, he had managed to get everything right; proba…