And what was Vega of the Lyre but a whirling, flaming, incredibly distant sun?

That time seemed incredibly distant.

Glenn thought of that incredibly distant world of beauty and charm and ancient civilization that was old when Neanderthal walked the Earth.

And faintly, waveringly, barely impinging upon the outermost, most tenuous fringes of his mind he felt something: the groping, questing summons of an incredibly distant thought.

Looking up, he saw a clear blue sky above his head, stretching away to an incredibly distant horizon rimmed with clouds.

Earth meets sky at an incredibly distant horizon.

Strange to think that he might well owe his life to a pair of Neandertals, contemporaries of his own incredibly distant ancestors.

A still longer time after that came a faint, incredibly distant thump as the bone landed.

Captain Bradley had opened the upper port and the three stood in the opening, gazing in silence toward the incredibly distant horizon, while powerful pumps were forcing the last possible ounces of air into the storage cylinders.

Shielded from the sun, with no atmosphere to dim its vision, it could penetrate the mysteries of the incredibly distant galaxies, examine closely the separate star systems thousands of light years beyond our own.