Title: Different Light
Description: Twenty years if he stayed in space-normal where his disease could be treated. One year if he followed the starcaptain into the Hype, the shimmering "not-space" that was the road to the stars, where jewelled voyagers sailed the light centuries in color shifting ships, star-burned lovers to a universe heavy with suns...

This is the story of that year.
(from the cover)
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general