title: In Endless Twilight: The Forever Hero, Volume 3
author:  L. E. Modesitt Jr. 
description: <DIV><DIV>L.E. Modesitt, Jr.s first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero. </DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers primitive remnants of humanity. And among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who grows up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again.</DIV></DIV>
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  The Forever Hero 3:
  The Endless Twilight
  L.E. Modesitt, Jr
  v1.0
  Scanned and Proofed
  by Neugaia (#Bookz)
  [21/03/2002]
  
  2
  I
  THE ONCE-UPON-a-time scoutship jumpshifted, and for a moment that was both instantaneous and
  endless, black light flooded the two small compartments, the one containing the pilot and the crew space
  that contained no one. That instant of shift seemed to last longer than normal, as it always did when the
  actual shift was near the limit.
  "Interrogative status," asked the pilot, a man with tight-curled blond hair and hawk-yellow eyes that
  swept the range of displays on the screens before him.
  "No EDI traces. No mass indications within point one light. Destination estimated at four plus." The
  impersonally feminine tone of the artificial intelligence would have chilled most listeners, but the pilot
  preferred the lack of warmth in the voice of the Caroljoy.
  In his rebuilding of the discarded and theoretically obsolete scout, the former Imperial commodore
  could have progr