Port Eternity

Synopsis

Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend. They were <i>made people</i>, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kirn. And they worked aboard the <i>Maid</i>, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, old-looking beams masking the structural joinings, and lamps that mimicked live flame. They lived in a kind of dream, and had no idea of their origins, their prototypes in those old, old story tapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal. Until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the <i>between</i> sucked them into a spatial no-man's-land from where there seemed to be no escape. And they were left alone, with the borrowed personas of their ancient namesakes, to face a crisis those venerable spirits were never designed to master! (from the back cover of the DAW 1st edition).