It was only a drill. It felt all too real. The starship didn't buck and shudder but it certainly sounded as if we were returning to what we still try to claim is "normal space." To judge from the pops, groans and subsonics, it was a middling-rough transition, something like a high-speed elevator rumbling to a stop while a troupe of luggage-testing primates hammered brand-name suitcases into the sides.
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Test with passengers aboard or no...are they hiring? ;-)
ReplyDeleteSadly, they're laying off. And you would not *believe* the fine print on the back of passenger tickets; let's just say we could use passengers or medical experimentation, as long as we were making some effort to deliver them to their terminal destination.
ReplyDeleteSomeone talked. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/secret-alien-base-mars-marine-3745652
ReplyDeleteYeah, I loved that. Paranoid schizophrenia, what a great source of SF ideas.
ReplyDeleteNicely done.
ReplyDeleteDang, those Edgers are cold-hearted so-and-so's.......
ReplyDeleteBTW -- "deliver them to their terminal destination". I see what you did there. :)
ReplyDeleteFuzzy: Heh heh heh.
ReplyDeleteRick T: well, they're tough and their stuff is highly automated, and their technological capabilities and pilot-performance expectations are very different to those of the Earth-based Hidden Frontierspeople. It makes for some uncomfortable moments.
This inspired me to read the entire iworkonastarship blog archive over the last few days. Really great writing. Love to read about the engineering of the ship as it upgraded over the years. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anon! That is encouraging to hear. Tell your friends! :)
ReplyDeleteI just now saw the link to buy "I Work On A Starship -- Buy The Book!" Are there more stories in the book than on the blog?
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