Let's think about something pleasant. For example, about the noodles they fed us when they were preparing us for the flight. An Earth-like planet in the habitable zone. A super-Earth. Three times larger than ours. 300 years of continuous...

I wake up because it's hard to breathe. Damn, it feels like it's boiling hot around me. Did I mess up when I connected the thermocouples? I crawl out of my makeshift shelter, but it's not much easier “outside.”...

Kahn was right about one thing, though: I am a fugitive.After years on the run, I had developed something like a sixth sense — a premonition that screamed at me to get out when things were getting too hot....