死者たちの星域
Deadman Switch
あらすじ（英語）
<b>From the back cover of the Baen second printing:</b> "Blood offering - Solitaire: a unique ring of heavy-metal moons. For decades after its discovery and unexplained "effect sphere" kept all hyperships away from a metal-hungry galaxy's most tantalizing prize. Until a research ship penetrated the Cloud entirely by accident - when the man at the helm died of a heart attack just before entering the sphere. For the first time, a hypership's drive did not fail as it approached Solitaire. For the researchers the difficult part came when it was time to leave... <p>Now, every ship heading for the Ring Mines carries two death-row felons - one for entry, the other for exit. It's as bizarre a method as the effect it counters, but it works... until the hero of <i>Deadman Switch</i> discovers that one of his condemned criminals isn't guilty..."
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