Paradox, a Local Item

The big story coming in on Pinamunde was a local item. All the news is at least six months old, some more than a year. A spaceship can log a light air in sixty-odd hours, but radio waves still crawl along at the same old 186,000 mps. When people have to stay underground most of the time to avoid being fried and or frozen to death, they have a lot of time to kill. And travel books are a special favor here because everybody is hoping to read about a worse place than Fenri.