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The Ballad of Beta-2 by Samuel R. Delany is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened. ~ ~~ ~ Joneny, a student of galactic anthropology, was assigned the problem. It had seemed routine to him. Just some faster-than-light travel to the two wrecked ships, a bit of poking around, and then writing up his findings. ~ ~~ ~ But he was ill-prepared for what he found in space at the site of the two ancient wrecks. One, the Sigma-9, was not subject to the laws of time-stasis (the only exception to a universal law), and it was covered entirely with a mysterious green fire that shimmered so much that it seemed alive! And the other ship, the Beta-2, was nowhere to be found. Only a fragment of a mysterious poem could possibly provide a clue.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Published
- 1964
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780441047222
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (420 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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