The story, a novelette first published in Asimov's SF Magazine in 1985, concerns a voyage of both discovery and pillage by a crew of 23rd century pirates from the "Catskill Archipelago" of islands, south, in search of the fabled "Empire State."
The story, a novelette first published in Asimov's SF Magazine in 1985, concerns a voyage of both discovery and pillage by a crew of 23rd century pirates from the "Catskill Archipelago" of islands, south, in search of the fabled "Empire State."