Thursday, November 29, 2007

Pools of Fullerene

Space is lonely and cold. And harsh. And unforgiving. And full of surprises. Witness our plucky protagonists, just a couple of asteroid miners, hoping to make a buck sucking buckyballs out of craters. But some of those puddles are deeper than they look, and some, a very few, hold your dreams. The find of the century, a wealth almost beyond imagine. That's what our friends stumble upon in one of those purple pools. And now they have anything they want and everything they imagined. Oh, you can spend a lifetime searching the galaxy and never find anything good or bad. And then, just when you have the best, the worst may be right behind it....