Dangerous curiosity

Dangerous curiosity

Moments later, they watched as the spheres began to spin and gyrate along their individual axes. The various colors within them – oranges, reds, yellows, lavenders – all increased in vibrancy with the motion, and within minutes they had begun to move gracefully among each other, gliding, spinning upward with their increasing speed and intensity.

The astronauts could almost feel the pressure. All of this was outside their area of expertise. But the phenomenon was something more than a dangerous curiosity or a small problem to be solved. Six crewmen assigned to aeroponics hurried into their lab and begun clearing the space as if their lives depended on it. Well, they depended on it. And not only their lives, but those of billions of human beings.

(Excerpt from The Rain, the world acclaimed novel by Elena and George B.)

Dangerous Curiosity. Photo by Elena