Lockaby

I'd managed to take only rare brief jaunts in her to visit my friends on Kedge-Lockaby in the Spur.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

He had even interviewed a few of my more vengeful acquaintances on the planet Kedge-Lockaby, who painted a revolting and accurate picture of me in my days as a drunken Throwaway.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

Virtually every armed Concern and Commonwealth star-ship in the galaxy, including that of Captain Guillermo Bermudez Obregon, based on Kedge-Lockaby, was mobilized to defend the Milky Way Galaxy.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

I'd suffered one before on Kedge-Lockaby when I fell off my sub's flybridge, drunk as a skunk.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

I dreamed of my tropical island on Kedge-Lockaby, 23,600 light-years away, and my new yellow submarine, which I'd hardly had a chance to break in.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

I'd lived in the Spur myself, on a pretty little freesoil world called Kedge-Lockaby.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

God, how I wished I were back on Kedge-Lockaby, convalescing in my new little house and being pampered by my friends!

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

Chispa's configuration would be evident to the prey's optical sensors, but her transponder ID and external designations, illegally suppressed by the tap of a pad once I had left Kedge-Lockaby restricted space, would not be.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

A century ago, when Gala exploration teams first cruised Zone 23 of the Milky Way and claimed Kedge-Lockaby, they would have inventoried every living thing on the planet that might have furnished a valuable new product — an antibiotic, a genetic engineering vector, a cosmetic, a heretofore undiscovered source of pharmaceutical excitement for bored middle-class humanity.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

He served his prison term, paid his whopping fine, was Thrown Away, and ended up on Kedge-Lockaby with the rest of us flotsam-and-jetsamites.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998