Space Juice: Chapter 9 – Red dust
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Thuris Thranganis gazed for a while at the air vent. “I’ll have to put my pet cloud experiments on hold.” “Pardon? Wet cloud experiments?” Marley was beginning to suspect he had a hearing loss. “No, you heard me. Pet cloud. I’ve been designing an intelligent cloud that has both practical and emotional uses. …
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Space Juice: Chapter 8 – Studier of useless things
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. The corridor curved constantly to the right, flanked with steel doors, some with thick glass windows through which a flurry of movement could be seen: A lab assistant carrying a test-tube, a cage with a globulous jelly, a robotic arm hyperextending into a convex cauldron. Was that a Zorgon? Chuck Marley slowed and …
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Space Juice: Chapter 7 – Small man big statue
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Two large glass panels silently opened on approach. Marley looked at Dimble. He roughly grabbed the wig and properly arranged it on Gaston’s head, giving it two firm pats. They walked through a lobby. They passed beneath an arch flanked by two sliding doors, finding themselves in a massive hall. Looking up at …
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Two-factor authentication (2FA): Is it worth the hassle?
Dan WildLocked out of my Amazon account. Locked out of a crypto account. Why? Because I set up two-factor authentication on both these accounts and have lost access to the second factor. In the case of my crypto account, I can get back in by providing them with photo ID. But with Amazon, it seems I …
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Space Juice: Chapter 6 – Labradroids
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Located in the heart of the human settlement, the lab sector pulsated with lights, billboards aerial drones and ground vehicles. The humans had their own tower, although this didn’t have a fanciful name like the Tower of Guardians. Nor did it seek to fill the beholder with awe. It was built for practical …
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Space Juice: Chapter 5 – Special sauce
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Gaston Dimble was lying on his back next to his fifth Betelgeuse Burger when Marley found him in the buggy park outside Jinko’s Takeaway. “My Betelgeuse Burgers were spiked. You look blurry Chuck. And there’s two of you.” Gaston pointed unsteadily. “Four, almost five Betelgeuse Burgers? I’m not surprised the special sauce has …
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Space Juice: Chapter 4 – Comfy chair
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Marley berated himself for choosing the cheapest room. For a few more credits he could have got something bigger than this shoebox. It had no windows. No fridge stocked with strangbrew. No complimentary tea. But it had a neon massage chair. At the moment it was occupied. By Zorgeous. The neon chair enveloped …
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Space Juice: Chapter 3 – Trouble at the Tower
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Mountains capped with red snow poked through the clouds. Jed was on the watch, maintaining a safe altitude and distance from the mountain peaks. He kept the craft above cloud cover. It would be hard to spot them from the ground. But they could see ground activity with the hovercab’s powerful sonar and …
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Space Juice: Chapter 2 – Seek, watch, believe
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. One person was unaccounted for. Insomniac Fluton. Chuck Marley found him in the sleeping quarters. Amazingly, he was actually lying on one of the two bunks in the narrow quarters, fast asleep, on his back, hands neatly folded on chest. It would be a crime to wake him. But he had already ordered …
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Space Juice: A Sci-fi Misadventure
Dan WildChapter 1: SCR 1845-6357B The ship thundered through the cosmic ether breaking all known laws of physics, except the law that allows science fiction writers to make a living speculating about laws being broken. To be precise, the ship was only breaking the laws of classical Newtonian physics, and a few of Einstein’s too. The …