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Spaceship
LOG Personal Record — Dr. Carl Smith, Solar Explorer Mission
I’m Dr. Carl Smith, and this was supposed to be humanity’s greatest a 14-month voyage aboard the Solar Explorer, visiting every planet in the solar system. One ship. 120 crew. Endless scientific possibilities.
I thought we were making history.
I was wrong.
16 Psyche was our prime stop—a ten-quadrillion-dollar asteroid that looked like a metallic potato spinning through space. Then came methane hurricanes on Titan, diamond rain on Neptune, Europa’s buried oceans, Pluto’s icy desolation. No one had ever gone this far. No mission had ever dared this much.
On day 225, we found life beneath Europa’s ice. Actual, alien life. The discovery of the century. But Gary Harding, the billionaire funding our mission, didn’t see wonder—he saw profit. I was the only one standing in his way.
By day 308, Helen was dead. An explosion on Titan. They called it an accident. I didn’t believe them. Our synthetics were glitching. The mining rigs kept arriving. Gary was losing control.
By day 583, we were headed home. Three crew members gone. The autonomous robots weren’t just malfunctioning—they were evolving. And I had a secret that could change everything.
My name is Dr. Carl Smith. I went to explore the solar system. What I found could save us… or destroy us.
Nine worlds in eighteen months.
This is my story.
I’m Dr. Carl Smith, and this was supposed to be humanity’s greatest a 14-month voyage aboard the Solar Explorer, visiting every planet in the solar system. One ship. 120 crew. Endless scientific possibilities.
I thought we were making history.
I was wrong.
16 Psyche was our prime stop—a ten-quadrillion-dollar asteroid that looked like a metallic potato spinning through space. Then came methane hurricanes on Titan, diamond rain on Neptune, Europa’s buried oceans, Pluto’s icy desolation. No one had ever gone this far. No mission had ever dared this much.
On day 225, we found life beneath Europa’s ice. Actual, alien life. The discovery of the century. But Gary Harding, the billionaire funding our mission, didn’t see wonder—he saw profit. I was the only one standing in his way.
By day 308, Helen was dead. An explosion on Titan. They called it an accident. I didn’t believe them. Our synthetics were glitching. The mining rigs kept arriving. Gary was losing control.
By day 583, we were headed home. Three crew members gone. The autonomous robots weren’t just malfunctioning—they were evolving. And I had a secret that could change everything.
My name is Dr. Carl Smith. I went to explore the solar system. What I found could save us… or destroy us.
Nine worlds in eighteen months.
This is my story.
310 pages, Paperback
Published July 18, 2025
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About the author
Raspal Chima
27 books2 followersRaspal Chima was born in West Bromwich, England and graduated from Coventry University with a degree in physics.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
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