Living an isolated life on the spaceship
Maid of Astolat, Lady Dela and her crew of
cloned servants designed in the image of
Arthurian legends are pulled
into a parallel dimension, but despite the title of this first book in
Cherryh’s
Alternate Realities series, there is no actual
time travel.
— from publicity material
Then it was as if whatever was holding us had just stopped existing, no jolt, but like
sliding on oil, like a horrible falling where there
is no falling.