<p>Ira and Gray found the egg on an abandoned ferryboat. It was wrinkled, with smears of red and yellow, and bigger than a basketball. They weren't sure why it was there, only that it must have been left there on purpose.</p><p></p><p>The next day, the egg had grown...</p><p></p><p>"<em>Slow Lightning</em> does a remarkable job of conveying the sheer strangeness of the universe and the future." -Poul Anderson</p>