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 …
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Rocket Science: Chapter 37 – Exit stage wormhole
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Marley looked puzzled. He looked more puzzled when the control surfaces began to move by themselves. “Engine firing initiated.” The console voiced its status report with more urgency. Marley tried to force-quit the application and shut-down his flablet. Rebooting the system made no difference to the status of the Anaconda. “Test complete. Initiating …
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Rocket Science: Chapter 36 – Pre-departure checks
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Gaston Dimble and Insomniac Fluton tap-tap-tapped on their flablets. “The cargo hold is big enough for 3,000 giblets, unthrashed. They could be sold at a small profit off-world, although the margins are small.” “Possibly? We need certainties, Gaston.” Marley took another swig of strangbrew. They were seated around a diamond-shaped table at one …
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Rocket Science: Chapter 35 – To the Stars
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. “A little birdie told me that soon, you’ll be heading to the stars.” Moszkowski flashed a grin. “He is a star,” said Zeen. Marley rushed over. “So is Zorgeous over there. Zorgeous, you’ve done a fine job. I’ll wire 50,000 credits to your account.” Zorgeous looked sad. “I don’t have an account.” “Then …
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Rocket Science: Chapter 34 – The Anaconda
Dan WildPrevious chapter “I don’t believe you, Chuck Marley.” Gaston giggled.“I don’t care. But that’s what happened.” Marley did care. They watched the hologram of the V13 thruster as it settled next to the Fooolzian Trawler outside Doookie’s Spare Space Parts. The only way for Marley to convince Gaston was to deliberately exaggerate: “I saved the …
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Rocket Science: Chapter 33 – Firefight
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. “The exhibition is over.” Billyboy stepped forwards. Mr Kibbles backed away. “But we thank you for our arms. Boys?” Barrel raised his assault rifle, Martini his laser knife. Billyboy drew two pistols. “Sorry Kibbles, but you know Guthrie. You’ve known him a long time. And he thinks that head of yours has got …