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Killgrace and the Singular
Situation
by C. Price
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BLURB:
Solar winds and steel chains are a difficult way to rescue a
creature the size of a planet from the grip of a black hole. When the creatures
in difficulty are something neither Susan or Cet have seen before, staying
uninvolved is not an option. Gravity and relativity are not the only problems
they face: there's also getting the would-be rescuers to work together.
My Thoughts On Killgrace and the Singular Situation
I have found a new Science Fiction series in Killgrace and
the Singular Situation. This is
part of a series featuring Susan, who appears to be human, and Cet, who is an
alien who lives in a hard metal suit.
They are travelers who have been separated from their home worlds. In this book they are in a galaxy that
is similar but different from theirs.
That is all background and part is from the Killgrace web site. The story starts with a rescue and
finishes when the rescue is over.
There are interesting characters that react with Susan and Cet while
trying to solve the big problems of rescuing two large beings that are being
sucked into a black hole. The
action fits the story line and the writing moves the plot along smoothly. Check this one out if you like science
in your Science Fiction.
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EXCERPTS (Please
choose only ONE to use with your post):
Excerpt One:
"I see your species is unfamiliar with stellar
fauna, and interstellar mega-fauna," the woman said, pulling her glance
from the viewing window with some reluctance and turning to her companion. Even
though they were along in the huge lounge, her voice was hushed. The dark blue,
metal form next to her was stationary, staring fixedly out of the
floor-to-ceiling window at the light of the nebula beyond.
Her companion did not have eyes in the strictest
sense, nor hands or legs. Instead it had opened its 'eyes', sensor lights
glowing with increased intensity through the armour as they focused on the dark
shapes outside. Then, to her delight, beneath the armour a second set of
membranes retracted and the lights brightened.
"Is that the equivalent of a double-take or
rubbing your eyes?" she asked, pushing a stray strand of hair back into
the severe style that held her greying curls.
"You have encountered these?" The flat
tones of the mechanical translator could not express emotion, but the sleek,
almost featureless, metallic shell had all seven blue sensor lights shining
fixedly forward through the metal of its dome in fascination.
"No," she admitted, "I read about
them. Interstellar mega-fauna are more common in universes where space is not a
vacuum, but they aren't unknown elsewhere." She looked out of the window
again, at the two creatures floating a quarter of a million miles away within
the nebula. Her companion did not speak, merely observing.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Two
scientists unexpectedly stranded in a technological backwater find, to their
dismay, that conservation of energy and E=mc2 are in effect. Most of their
technology is useless. They have two ways to get home: try and merge the
reality they are in with the main causality, or rebuild a navigational database
from readings taken across space and take a shortcut. Unfortunately
co-operation could be a problem. The world they came from was at war, and they
aren't on the same side, or even the same species.
Under
a shaky truce, they explore a series of worlds where physics may not work the
same way, aliens exist and may never have encountered their various species
before, and most dangerous of all, places where life as they know it is not
supported. Since most of their technology is unavailable, they only have their
knowledge of logic and science to save themselves. Between these infrequent
trips, they have to build their operations base without damaging technological
progress - starting on 1920s earth, and one of them knows enough history to
know that there's another war on the horizon...
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http://www.killgrace.co.uk
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