Book 3, Burton Crane
Chapter 8HITCHING A RIDE ON one of America’s biggest military transport planes, Burton Crane touched down more heavily than usually on a C5 Galaxy at the eastern Long Island air base of the New York Air National Guard.
New York was pleasant, hot, and humid. With Wiesbaden calling for his head, the smells of youth felt safe. He attended a long lecture given by Dr Margaret Kirkpatrick, an iconoclastic physicist speaking to a small gathering of interstellar physicists on the uneven texture of mass in space, and variations in spatial heat. It was all well above his head.
With the woman’s facial recovery in the third week, the lecture took will to deliver. Crane had come across this young woman in his study of Birger Wallenberg. If experience was anything to go by, she a
