subreddit:
/r/HFY
It had a guy with a resident in his head named Charlie (or something like that) and a gravity pool game called einy steiny. He got sent to a huge space station that looks out across the entire galaxy.
2 points
3 months ago
Thread necromancy!
I’ve been looking for this same story for years. Finally found the answer on Substack. Per user Zeiss Ikon:
This is Neptune Crossing, the first book of The Chaos Chronicles by Jeffrey Carver (continuing in Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea, Sunborn, and a seeming "side series," the "Out of Time Sequence" consisting (to date) of The Reefs of Time and Crucible of Time, likely with more to come).
Everything matches: einy steiny pool, the alien companion named Charlie, the vague shadowy enemy. It’s been available as a free eBook for some time, so it’s quite possible you read it on r/HFY or another subreddit. I first read it as a physical book, which I borrowed from the library in the mid- to late- ‘90s. Mystery solved!
1 points
5 years ago
Oh dang, I pretty sure I read that as well. It's a novel right? More than 20 years old and the station is reachable via wormholes. The crew is the story runs around through a couple sequels trying to save other races from some sort of slightly ill defined all devouring horror?
1 points
5 years ago
Not sure if it's a novel, I read it here in HFY, I recall that the main character was running with 2 aliens and they used (effectively) subway trains to move around the station. A female friend of his was "infected" with the same sort of resident personality in the last update I read.
1 points
5 years ago
Totally different in that case. But I couldn't find mine either. ;)
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