Choose font preferences: Think Blue Count Two by Cordwainer Smith IBefore the great ships whispered between the stars by means of planoforming people had to flyfrom star to star with immense sails— huge films assorted in space on long rigid coldproofrigging. A small spaceboat provided room for a sailor to handle the sails check the courseand watch the passengers who were sealed like knots in immense threads in their littleadiabatic pods which trailed behind the ship. The passengers knew nothing except for going tosleep on Earth and waking up on a strange new world forty fifty or two hundred years later. This was a primitive way to do it. But it worked. On such a ship Helen America had followed Mr. Grey-no-more. On such ships the Scannersretained their ancient authority over space. Two hundred planets and more were settled in thisfashion including