Tuesday, December 02, 2014

I Do Work On A Starship

     There's a new story up at I Work On A Starship:

     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.

     Want to know what happens next?  Read on!

11 comments:

Ken said...

Test with passengers aboard or no...are they hiring? ;-)

Roberta X said...

Sadly, 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.

eriko said...

Someone talked. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/secret-alien-base-mars-marine-3745652

Roberta X said...

Yeah, I loved that. Paranoid schizophrenia, what a great source of SF ideas.

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

Nicely done.

Rick T said...

Dang, those Edgers are cold-hearted so-and-so's.......

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

BTW -- "deliver them to their terminal destination". I see what you did there. :)

Roberta X said...

Fuzzy: Heh heh heh.

Rick 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.

Anonymous said...

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!

Roberta X said...

Thank you, Anon! That is encouraging to hear. Tell your friends! :)

Anonymous said...

I 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?