The three-creature crew of the Peony, a mining and haulage ship running routes in the distant Reaches, finds a distress beacon emanating from a derelict ship. But what they find, thousands of light-years into deep space, might have been better left adrift.
Bravo, the laconicity of the narration, the correspondence of the amount of text to the plot content necessary for the disclosure of the topic, a very pleasant language of writing - familiarization with this work brought me extremely positive impressions.
It's a pretty good sci-fi romp. Nice unsettling images, good bit of mystery to go along with it, very nice stuff. Derelict Hope is indeed a fitting name for the ship.