Dyson Sphere
Chapter One
The Shape of Heaven
Tonight, Captain Picard came back again to his
mother's old admonition: "Be careful what you
wish for, Jean-Luc. You may get it."
Sitting in his ready room, he again played the
record of the Enterprise's brief first passage
through the Dyson Sphere. He had played it so
many times now that his mind was numbed by it,
numbed by what a later computer analysis of that
scan had revealed. He had believed the Sphere's
interior to be completely lifeless, but a
detailed examination of the data by newer and
more advanced computers had shown a variety - a
nearly infinite variety, Picard supposed - of
plants and vegetation.
But what they had at first concluded remained
true: The Dyson Sphere had seemingly been
abandoned by whatever life forms had constructed
it. The ... read full excerpt from Dyson Sphere ebook
