Cherryh’s Alternate Realities #1
Port Eternity
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.