Nimisha's Ship: Anne McCaffrey

Crystal Singer Universe o.4. Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense was the body-heir of Lady Rezalla and as such was the heiress of one of the First Families on Vega. But even as a child she disdained the formalities of her aristocratic background and was happiest in her father's shipyard. By the time she was in her twenties she was the designer of the most advanced space yacht in the galaxy and owner of the Rondymense shipyards. It was on a test of her Mark 5 prototype that things went wrong. In an empty space field she was suddenly confronted by a boiling white wormhole and was sucked in, only to be thrown out into an unknown dimension of time and space. She was not the first - as she explored this new and unfamiliar part of the Universe she found traces of many ships marooned there over the centuries. Not knowing if she would ever return to the world she new, Nimisha chose to land on 'Erehwon' - fascinating, terrifying and beautiful - and inhabited by not only three survivors of a previous Vegan ship - but something else...Cover art by Jim Burns.