Heller's Leap

There is only one way to reach Iola, where an interstellar distress signal had originated. For Iola belongs to a small group of stars cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the close presence of an all-enveloping black hole. The only way to reach Iola is through that timeless-spaceless cosmic warm.

Klaus Heller answered that call. He leapt, clad in a special self-sustaining spacesuit, through the black hole.

He returned to the world intact, silent, and secretive. And was found murdered wher...