Aphelion

... sounds like something that might have been excerpted in the 'quotations' that appear at the beginning of each episode of the Andromeda TV series -- which isn't surprising, since Mr. McDonald has just written an Andromeda novel!<br><br>Nicely evokes the loneliness of a wrecked spacecraft and the lost dreams it represents.<br><br>I'm not sure why the captain would have been 'atomised', however; killed, certainly, when his ship lost atmosphere, but atomised?<br><br>... Hey Dan, did you notice that ANOTHER pro (with several published novelizations, plus credits in series television) had a poem in this month's issue? Aphelion's rep must be spreading throughout the speculative fiction and fantasy universe ...<br><br>Robert M.