Outlaw Star novel English Translation

El-Dorado in the clouds El-Dorado. That's the name of that run-down mining city we ended at while chasing after Billy. I'm saying city, but it's really only a few kilometers in diameter, carved out of the surround rock. Not much more than an insignificant cavern. All that surrounding rock is in fact a rocky mass floating within the gas super-giant Auram IV , in the upper layers of the heavy atmosphere. That gives to El-Dorado quite a different feel than the typical asteroid settlement.  Our ship, the Outlaw Star , however, isn't parked here in El-Dorado but on the planet's first satellite, Rio Grande . Since El-Dorado is located within the dense, high-pressure atmosphere of a gas planet, a spaceship attempting to reach it would end up torn appart and blown away by the fierce winds. Therefore there is no spaceport in El-Dorado, and access to the city is only possible via a ridiculously long space elevator  operated from  Rio Grande  via a  tether (a hanging cable...

El-Dorado in the clouds [Part I - Golden city under twilight] It seems I have it in me to invite trouble. That's what I thought, me, Gene Starwind, as the moment I reached my destination, some lowly bar, I came face-to-face with the unsettling mouth of a raygun pointed at me. Even though that ended up being just a hint of the much bigger troubles yet to come. Even if that joint is the only of its kind in town, it has all the characteristics of said town, a run-down mining settlement: cramped, filthy, scarcely populated. The reason for my presence in this forsaken place is that I'm chasing after a serial-killer wanted in Heyfong as well as several other star systems. This town is the hometown of this bird of ill-omen, apparently. And the reason I was headed for the one bar, is because I thought there'd be no better place to inquire the whereabouts of a reckless, stupid killer than where alcohol flows generously.  A bird of ill-omen. A reckless, stupid killer. That's pr...