β Scribed by Deborah J. Ross
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Science Fiction novelette. The crew of the spaceship Juno expect to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead, they discover a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What happened here? A natural disaster... or an alien weapon capable of destroying an entire world? Honorable Mention, Year's Best SF, 2009.
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