Explore "Atom Drive" by Charles L. Fontenay on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different._
The two spaceship crews were friendly enemies, sitting across the table from each other for their last meal before blastoff. Outside the ports, the sky was nothing but light-streaked blackness, punctured periodically by Earth glare, for Space Station 2 whirled swiftly on its axis, creating an artificial gravity.