A team of soldiers and specialists boards the Nightingale, a legendary medical ship believed destroyed decades ago, to capture a war criminal rumored to be hiding aboard. What they find instead is a vessel far from abandoned, with medical systems still very much active, and a purpose of its own that none of them saw coming.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Revelation Space
- contained in Galactic Northcollection
- contained in The Revelation Space Collection: Volume 2collection
- contained in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collectionanthology