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Some planets just aren't worth saving.
Abandon Station
The Dyson Bridge Series Book 1
by V.G. Harrison
Genre: Science Fiction
An explosion rocks the Bridgeway Space Station. Mechanical Engineer Meridia Vail and her crew wake to find themselves on an alternate Earth where the technology is decades behind theirs, and so are the politics.
When she realizes their space station survived the interdimensional transport to an alternate space and time, she and her crew have only one mission. Get back to the Bridgeway so they can return to their real home.
Time is running out. If the metabolic changes that come with their teleported space station don’t kill them, the politics and secret agendas will.
Returning home makes sense, but that’s assuming there’s a home to return to. When Meridia learns the Bridgeway’s decaying orbit threatens to annihilate the planet, the Earthers will be more than happy to take their chances by destroying the greatest technological marvel of all time.
With members of Meridia’s international crew scattered across the planet and being detained, she must escape her “caretakers”, if she and her people ever have a chance at saving the one thing that might be able to save everyone.
An alarm whooped through the
station. Those who weren’t needed for the maneuvering efforts were enjoying
dinner in the main cylinder’s mess hall when we got jolted from our plates. So
much for my Kobe steak with mashed potatoes and peas. Everything that was white
had been doused in red, flashing lights. An announcement came over the speakers
that we had to report to our emergency stations.
“What’s going on?” I asked as
Szilvia Rager hurried by so fast it fluffed up her platinum blond pixie cut. I
rushed to catch up to her in the hall.
“It’s the shuttle. It’s helping to
tow the station and the telescope into place, but it’s also bringing us in
slower than expected because there’s a malfunction in one of the engines.”
“Can’t we—?”
She shook her head. “No time. We
need to do a course correction with the thrusters on the Nexicon before that
solar storm hits. It’s moving twice as fast as before because the Dyson net
drifted too close to the sun and got caught in the blast. The net energized the
storm, so that monster is practically on top of us now.”
“Let me guess.” I followed her down
the corridor stairs. “Nobody factored that into their calculations. Not that
they had enough time either.”
“If they had left it up to me, this
wouldn’t be a problem right now.”
Her head was so big it was a miracle
she could fit through certain parts of the station. Szivlia had tried for years
to do a long-term rotation in space, but never made the cut. I think it had
more to do with her telling one of the station managers to pull their mouth out
of their secretary’s backdoor and maybe that would increase their attention
span. Had she not been an Einstein-level mathematician, she would’ve been
looking for a job outside the space program. Ever since then, she had been
relegated to ground crew unless someone of high authority requested her
presence onboard. It was a good thing she still had a few friends around. I was
more of an acquaintance.
On the shuttle, my emergency station
would’ve been the midsection crew compartment. On the station, it was
engineering since my background was mechanical engineering with a materials
science minor. I hated to break the news to everyone, but if something went
wrong on the space station, they were better off contacting the person who
designed it. I had only scratched the surface of the station’s engineering
capabilities.
I left the cylinder and floated down
to Engineering. There, I went to the EHUs to make sure they were still intact.
“Everyone, stow your stuff and strap
in,” Captain Kasongo said over the intercom. “This is going to be a bumpy ride.
Riddhi, adjust your course on the telescope’s thrusters by six degrees
starboard.”
“Yes, ma’am,” he replied.
I made my way toward the EHUs. I did
one last check before deflating the first one. If there was a drag on the
station, I didn’t want it to be because of the habitats. I flew to the second
one and did the same. I watched through the porthole from the side as it shrunk
back down and sealed itself inside the deployment canister.
When I got to the last one, a lurch
tipped me forward and tossed me head over heels into the back of the habitat. I
hit the soft wall and bounced toward the ceiling. By the time I got my
bearings, I noticed a silent bright light outside the window. I didn’t think it
was possible to see a solar flare.
Fire whooshed up around the
porthole.
Amazon best-selling author, V.G. Harrison enjoys creating smart heroines who are more comfortable dealing with things like Fine-structure constant and quantum entanglement than the fallout from their conflict. She loves to write stories that leave her audience so engaged they can't sleep at night, thinking about the possibilities.
V.G. holds a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and a Masters in Information Technology. When she's not writing, she's an IT manager for a healthcare information systems company.
Her ever-growing list of hobbies include astronomy, attending comic cons, keeping an eye on the cryptocurrency and stock markets, hydroponics gardening, hiking, and connecting with her daughter, Collie, on a cool level. Building Lego sets at night with milk and cookies on the side come in handy for that.
For more information, head over to https://www.vgharrison.com.
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The excerpt sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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