Waking in Winter

On a far, frozen desert world, Muir the pilot discovers an ancient artefact in the ice. She sees a mermaid at first, but later comes to wonder if it is Ningyo, a fish god from her homeland in Japan. A god that brings misfortune and storm. A god that—by all means possible—should be returned to the sea. The rest of Base Station Un see something else. Bayoumi the lab rat sees Sekhmet the lioness goddess, daughter of the sun god. Partholon the creep finds in its shape a ‘good, old-fashioned cruxifix’. But all of them want to possess it. All of them want it for themselves.

Pe o lume desertica indepartata, pilotul Muir descopera un artefact stravechi in gheata. La inceput vede o sirena, dar mai tarziu se intreaba daca este vorba de Ningyo, un zeu peste din patria ei din Japonia.