The Voyage of the Ice Clipper: Short Story by Trevor Hopkins

The price of freedom: freedom from oppression, freedom to determine one's own future, freedom to associate with those who have similar dreams and aspirations to your own.

What would you give up to obtain those freedoms? And would you give up your own life in order to give others the gift of freedom?

This story is a sort-of sequel to the events in The Last Asteroid.

I have also completed several sequels to this story, entitled Hero of the Rebellion (2nd Class), Time Out of Place and Consolidation Earth.

I am now working on new tales in the same sequence entitled Garden at the End of the Universe and Gods and Daemons.

I'm rather taken with this series. It's already taken on something of a life of its own, it seems, and I'm beginning to suspect there are yet more stories to come.

The name of the ship-cum-iceball in this story is not a coincidence!

The Endurance was the name of the ship that became icelocked and eventually destroyed in Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated but ultimately heroic expedition to the South Pole.

Remarkably, despite the slow but ultimately complete destruction and eventual sinking of the Endurance itself, the entire crew were rescued safely months later.

This story has a different combination of ship and ice, but the parallels are interesting nonetheless.

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