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Saline
A student is marooned in a spaceship drifting in orbit around a water world.
54 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 9, 2012
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December 2, 2013
This is an inventive and fun science fiction short story. Fans of 'Star Trek', 'Blake's Seven' and general SF will have a good time with this. SALINE is a water world.
While engaged in the necessary research to gain his PhD, young pilot Ben gets burdened with a feckless navigator on his two-person spacecraft. Only, the other student has better things to do, involving a female student, so without much concentration he files the flight plan and leaves Ben to it. One hazardous flight later due to a plasma jet from a star, Ben has a damaged vessel, not much food and an ocean world with no land.
An anomaly on the scanners turns out to be a much larger vessel, from a different culture, seemingly intact but adrift in orbit without any crew, like a Marie Celeste. Bravely Ben crosses to the other ship and meets a very unusual 'person', Kira, a holographic representation of a girl who tries to help him secure both of their survivals.
The far-future tale presents a series of challenges leading to all-out war and is told in present tense. The scenes switch between past and present which may make it difficult to follow, but otherwise I would consider it suitable for young adults to adults. Dick Gillman was born in Sheffield, England and has a career as a science teacher behind him.
While engaged in the necessary research to gain his PhD, young pilot Ben gets burdened with a feckless navigator on his two-person spacecraft. Only, the other student has better things to do, involving a female student, so without much concentration he files the flight plan and leaves Ben to it. One hazardous flight later due to a plasma jet from a star, Ben has a damaged vessel, not much food and an ocean world with no land.
An anomaly on the scanners turns out to be a much larger vessel, from a different culture, seemingly intact but adrift in orbit without any crew, like a Marie Celeste. Bravely Ben crosses to the other ship and meets a very unusual 'person', Kira, a holographic representation of a girl who tries to help him secure both of their survivals.
The far-future tale presents a series of challenges leading to all-out war and is told in present tense. The scenes switch between past and present which may make it difficult to follow, but otherwise I would consider it suitable for young adults to adults. Dick Gillman was born in Sheffield, England and has a career as a science teacher behind him.
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