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L is for Librarian #7
Acquisition
Captain Jonathan Sweeney runs an interstellar tugboat with a unique mission: rescue old spaceships from the relativistic era and add their passengers- if they so choose- to the Imperial Library Corps' Living Collection. But when his employers ask him to retrieve an ancient generation ship bound for the Andromeda Galaxy, Captain Sweeney has no idea that he is about to match wits with the Imperial Library's worst enemy...
Acquisition, a 15,000-word novella, is the seventh installation in L is for Librarian, a science fiction anthology about libraries and librarians.
Acquisition, a 15,000-word novella, is the seventh installation in L is for Librarian, a science fiction anthology about libraries and librarians.
40 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 24, 2018
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Tom Bruno
28 books16 followersTom Bruno was born in New Jersey (Exit 3 of the Jersey Turnpike, to be precise!). An early reader, he planned his childhood activities around the weekly arrival of the county bookmobile and frequented every book store within half a day's ride of his three-speed bike.
Tom's bibliomania inevitably brought him to the Athens of America, where after a misguided attempt to become an astronaut at MIT he decided to complete his Bachelor's degree in Ancient Greek and Latin at Boston University and then his Master's degree in Library Science at Simmons College.
When he's not writing, Tom is a librarian, helping other people get their much-needed book fix!
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Tom's bibliomania inevitably brought him to the Athens of America, where after a misguided attempt to become an astronaut at MIT he decided to complete his Bachelor's degree in Ancient Greek and Latin at Boston University and then his Master's degree in Library Science at Simmons College.
When he's not writing, Tom is a librarian, helping other people get their much-needed book fix!
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Tom^Bruno = main list [this author]
Tom^^Bruno = Science Fiction & Fantasy
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July 20, 2019
So this one was kinda trippy. Early space travel, at just below the speed of light, enabled its crew to live for hundreds of years, since the journeys took so long. Now suppose that sometime during the time of your centuries long journey, your country is gone, your company is gone, perhaps even your planet. Your ship has been sold for salvage, and a hyper light speed scrap ship has come to claim it. That's the premise for this lovely story by Bruno, who does another wonderful job exploring the distant future of librarians. Because, yes, the Intergalactic Librarian Corps is in here again. Well done!
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