Graveyard of Space

Stephen Marlowe

Description

Ralph and Diane are a married pair of down-on-their-luck miners. Penniless and without a solid plan, they're making their way toward a fresh start when their spacecraft begins behaving strangely. Suddenly, they find themselves marooned in a little-known void filled with one danger after another. Will they ever be able to escape the graveyard of space?

Sujets

• Science fiction

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776531653
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE GRAVEYARD OF SPACE
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STEPHEN MARLOWE
 
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Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in—
The Graveyard of Space
He lit a cigarette, the last one they had, and asked his wife "Want toshare it?"
"No. That's all right." Diane sat at the viewport of the battered oldGormann '87, a small figure of a woman hunched over and watching theparade of asteroids like tiny slow-moving incandescent flashes.
Ralph looked at her and said nothing. He remembered what it was likewhen she had worked by his side at the mine. It had not been much of amine. It had been a bust, a first class sure as hell bust, likeeverything else in their life together. And it had aged her. Had it onlybeen three years? he thought. Three years on asteroid 4712, a speck ofcosmic dust drifting on its orbit in the asteroid belt between Jupiterand Mars. Uranium potential, high—the government had said. So they hadleased the asteroid and prospected it and although they had not finishedthe job, they were finished. They were going home and now there werelines on Diane's face although she was hardly past twenty-four. Andthere was a bitterness, a bleakness, in her eyes.
The asteroid had ruined them, had taken something from them and givennothing in return. They were going home and, Ralph Meeker thought, theyhad left more than their second-hand mining equipment on asteroid 4712.