Sunday, January 5, 2014

Webrider by Jayge Carr

This was an interesting story I found in The 1986 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim. It was a story about a female humanoid with a tail and a mane that could travel across the galaxy through worm holes. Only 1% of all beings who have attempted this type of travel survive, therefore she believes she is entitled to a certain level of pride and privilege. She lands on a world and expects to receive whatever pleasures she wants, even ignoring what is considered taboo on that planet. She has a fling with one of the males on that planet and he manages to sneek into the wormhole with her and survive. This solves her main problem with being a webrider, the problem of loneliness.

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