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Short story about space worker geeks who zone out by 'listening' to radiation from stars



Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Favorite questions and answers from first quarter of 2019
Latest Blog Post: FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Spring 2019)Story with people called “lobsters” who are welded into spacesuits for life?Story about human space explorers who run into alien telepath space crewShort story about researchers on a strange planet, genetic mutationShort Story from Boy's Life about two boys who get transported to another planet, hide in alien junkShort story about Earth freezing over and the appeal of a frostbitten dancerSearching by sea on a distant planet for a drug found in whale-like creaturesFind sci fi short story about invisible creatures on everyone's headsLooking for this short-story about a lone man's space travel, although details are a bit vagueShort story about a school trip in a glitching VR simulationSci-fi horror short story about explorers on a Lovecraft-inspired asteroidShort story about an asteroid colony where the plumber is an unclean/outcast



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This is a short story I desperately want to read this story again, by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling (80% sure it's one of these two).



There's a part where some of the workers in a space setting (asteroid mining?) are described as listening to signals from stars or some such, as a form of entertainment or relaxation.










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    I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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This is a short story I desperately want to read this story again, by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling (80% sure it's one of these two).



There's a part where some of the workers in a space setting (asteroid mining?) are described as listening to signals from stars or some such, as a form of entertainment or relaxation.










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    I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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This is a short story I desperately want to read this story again, by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling (80% sure it's one of these two).



There's a part where some of the workers in a space setting (asteroid mining?) are described as listening to signals from stars or some such, as a form of entertainment or relaxation.










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This is a short story I desperately want to read this story again, by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling (80% sure it's one of these two).



There's a part where some of the workers in a space setting (asteroid mining?) are described as listening to signals from stars or some such, as a form of entertainment or relaxation.







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    I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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    I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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I don't have time to look through all of those guys' stories either, so could you possibly narrow down the time frame a little? Can you give us a definite "no later than" date? Do you remember if you read it in an anthology book, or if it was in an original magazine like Analog or Asimov's or Omni?

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Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling. Also identified as the answer to Story with people called "lobsters" who are welded into spacesuits for life? although that didn't mention the listening to stars.



It's the aforementioned Lobsters who listen to the stars. The relevant part of the story is:




The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.


They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.


They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.







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  • Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

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Perhaps you are thinking of Red Star, Winter Orbit which is written by both William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It takes place on a Soviet space station which, I believe matches the description you provided. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:




The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit




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    Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

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    Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

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Perhaps Beacon 23, by Hugh Howey? Here's the summary from Goodreads:




For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.




I can't find a relevant quote, but the main character relaxes by laying his head against some sort of gravity-wave based beacon. He thinks he gets a high of some kind from this.






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  • Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

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Probably not what you're looking for, but Contact by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) has an astronomer (not quite space setting), who listens to signals from stars for "entertainment or relaxation".






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    Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling. Also identified as the answer to Story with people called "lobsters" who are welded into spacesuits for life? although that didn't mention the listening to stars.



    It's the aforementioned Lobsters who listen to the stars. The relevant part of the story is:




    The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.


    They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.


    They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.







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    • Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

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    Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling. Also identified as the answer to Story with people called "lobsters" who are welded into spacesuits for life? although that didn't mention the listening to stars.



    It's the aforementioned Lobsters who listen to the stars. The relevant part of the story is:




    The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.


    They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.


    They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.







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    • Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

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    Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling. Also identified as the answer to Story with people called "lobsters" who are welded into spacesuits for life? although that didn't mention the listening to stars.



    It's the aforementioned Lobsters who listen to the stars. The relevant part of the story is:




    The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.


    They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.


    They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.







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    Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling. Also identified as the answer to Story with people called "lobsters" who are welded into spacesuits for life? although that didn't mention the listening to stars.



    It's the aforementioned Lobsters who listen to the stars. The relevant part of the story is:




    The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.


    They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.


    They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.








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    • Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

      – CForbin
      Mar 28 at 23:30

















    • Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

      – CForbin
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    Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

    – CForbin
    Mar 28 at 23:30





    Yep, that's the story I read! What really strikes me is how much the description of the Lobsters (starting with 'Their greatest pleasure...') reminded me of amateur astronomers (and that includes me). Thanks for posting!

    – CForbin
    Mar 28 at 23:30













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    Perhaps you are thinking of Red Star, Winter Orbit which is written by both William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It takes place on a Soviet space station which, I believe matches the description you provided. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:




    The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit




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      Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

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      Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

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      Mar 28 at 23:25















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    Perhaps you are thinking of Red Star, Winter Orbit which is written by both William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It takes place on a Soviet space station which, I believe matches the description you provided. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:




    The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit




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      Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

      – user14111
      Mar 27 at 1:55






    • 1





      Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

      – CForbin
      Mar 28 at 23:25













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    Perhaps you are thinking of Red Star, Winter Orbit which is written by both William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It takes place on a Soviet space station which, I believe matches the description you provided. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:




    The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit




    P.S. Welcome to Sci-Fi Stack Exchange!






    share|improve this answer















    Perhaps you are thinking of Red Star, Winter Orbit which is written by both William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It takes place on a Soviet space station which, I believe matches the description you provided. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia:




    The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit




    P.S. Welcome to Sci-Fi Stack Exchange!







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      Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

      – user14111
      Mar 27 at 1:55






    • 1





      Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

      – CForbin
      Mar 28 at 23:25












    • 1





      Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

      – user14111
      Mar 27 at 1:55






    • 1





      Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

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      Mar 28 at 23:25







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    Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

    – user14111
    Mar 27 at 1:55





    Maybe that's it. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia summary doesn't mention anything about geeks listening to space noise. Maybe you can find something like that in the text of the story? (I didn't see anything on a quick look-through with my weak eyes, but that doesn't mean much.)

    – user14111
    Mar 27 at 1:55




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    Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

    – CForbin
    Mar 28 at 23:25





    Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the tip. Even though this wasn't the story, it was close, and helped me remember more details of the story I was thinking about (oh, the mysteries of human memory). I was about to post these additional story details when I saw the above reference to Cicada Queen.

    – CForbin
    Mar 28 at 23:25











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    Perhaps Beacon 23, by Hugh Howey? Here's the summary from Goodreads:




    For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.




    I can't find a relevant quote, but the main character relaxes by laying his head against some sort of gravity-wave based beacon. He thinks he gets a high of some kind from this.






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    • Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

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    Perhaps Beacon 23, by Hugh Howey? Here's the summary from Goodreads:




    For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.




    I can't find a relevant quote, but the main character relaxes by laying his head against some sort of gravity-wave based beacon. He thinks he gets a high of some kind from this.






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    • Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

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    Perhaps Beacon 23, by Hugh Howey? Here's the summary from Goodreads:




    For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.




    I can't find a relevant quote, but the main character relaxes by laying his head against some sort of gravity-wave based beacon. He thinks he gets a high of some kind from this.






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    Perhaps Beacon 23, by Hugh Howey? Here's the summary from Goodreads:




    For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.




    I can't find a relevant quote, but the main character relaxes by laying his head against some sort of gravity-wave based beacon. He thinks he gets a high of some kind from this.







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    • Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

      – John Rennie
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    • Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

      – John Rennie
      Mar 27 at 17:44
















    Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

    – John Rennie
    Mar 27 at 17:44





    Beacon 23 is a novel not a short story, and the character isn't listening to anything. The quote is: I doubt I’m the only one who sits with my back to the machine, letting it soothe my head like a straight-up whiskey while I gaze out at the dull gray stones of the asteroid field that makes an awful mess of astral navigation.

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    Probably not what you're looking for, but Contact by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) has an astronomer (not quite space setting), who listens to signals from stars for "entertainment or relaxation".






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      Probably not what you're looking for, but Contact by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) has an astronomer (not quite space setting), who listens to signals from stars for "entertainment or relaxation".






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        Probably not what you're looking for, but Contact by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) has an astronomer (not quite space setting), who listens to signals from stars for "entertainment or relaxation".






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        Probably not what you're looking for, but Contact by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) has an astronomer (not quite space setting), who listens to signals from stars for "entertainment or relaxation".







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