middle-deep

Updated: May 8, 2025

Maybe they thought that they would be located and picked up the gang that had robbed and dumped them had found them easily enough. But there, again, was a paradox of enormity. Bands might wait for suckers somewhere beyond Mars. Elsewhere, there could be nobody for millions of miles. They saw their first asteroid a pitted, mesoderm fragment of nickel-iron from middle-deep in the blasted planet.

Raymond Z. Gallun - The Planet Strappers