We All Died at Breakaway Station

Plot

The Officers of the Iwo Jima:Captain Absolom Bracer, with, among other things, an artificial brainpan and synthetic eyes; Astrogation Officer Gene O'Gwynn, a lady with a plastic face; Weapons Officer Akin Darby and Communications Officer Miss Cyanta - both with assorted prosthetic parts -And of the Pharsalus:A repetition, with variations, of the crew of her sister ship. These two heavy battle-cruiser starships were, in theory, protecting the cumbersome, vast Rudoph Cragstone, hospital ship returning to Earth with thousands of wounded in 'cold-sleep.'The brutally injured officers had been restored to temporary, artificial life to do this job because no whole man or woman could be spared.And then Breakaway Station, a focal and vital link with Earth, was threatened...