The Ballad of Beta 2 Author:Samuel R. Delany Amthropology student Joneny was sent out on a quest he didn't want: to find the meaning of the Ballad of Beta-2. For the ballad was the only clue that even hinted at what had happened to spaceship Beta-2's missing crew of galactic colonists. Joneny's search for the answer led him on a course of indescribable terror--and to a miraculous underst... more »anding.« less