Galaxy Blues

Galaxy Blues

Allen Steele

Language: English

Pages: 336

ISBN: 0441015646

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet and facing charges of grand theft, Jules Truffant agrees to sign up as shuttle pilot aboard the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in exchange for amnesty. After botching Pride's mission to RhoCorenae and upsetting an alien culture in the process, Jules must take part in a voyage across the galaxy to place a probe squarely in the path of a black hole as it plows through an inhabited star system.

BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Allen Steele explains why he needed to bring a lighter tone to Galaxy Blues.

Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga, Book 2)

Retreat And Adapt (A Galaxy Unknown, Book 9)

Secret Harmonies (Stars, Book 2)

Gefangene der SOL (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 122; Die Kosmische Hanse, Band 4)

Lemuria (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 28; Die Meister der Insel, Band 8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

window. Twilight was fading, and the stranger was nowhere to be seen. Once again, I was alone. Something within my mind insisted that this was an illusion—you dozed off, a small voice said, and had a vivid dream—yet I couldn’t quite believe this. I’d just received a visitor. Of that, I had little doubt. XV Dinner arrived about an hour later, on a tray carried in by Chief Levin, who slipped it through a rectangular opening in the door. By coincidence, it was roast chicken. Nowhere near as tasty

these boys and girls committed errors that would have put a Little League team to shame, until I gradually realized that these were third-generation colonists who’d inherited the game from their fathers and grandfathers. Once I came to accept this, I stopped cursing the pitcher every time he walked a batter. Even so, I found myself wishing I could be out there, if only to show these guys how baseball was really played. My other distraction was Rain. Most of the crew had other places to live

her seat, I ordered the passenger hatch to be sealed. Once Lucy was airtight, I pressurized the compartment, then got on the comlink and requested gantry rollback. Bright sunlight streamed through the cockpit windows as the shuttle emerged from beneath the tower’s shadow; through my headset, I could hear the crosstalk among the ground crew as they cleared the pad. A few minutes later, traffic control informed me that airspace was clear and I had permission to launch. One last check of all

made up for it with a thick white beard that went halfway down his chest. Doc knew Goldstein and called him by his first name, something that Morgan seemed to tolerate only barely; I’d later learn that Doc had a history of disagreements with his boss that might have gotten him canned a long time ago were it not for the fact that the chief was almost always right. And for good reason. I eventually learned that Edward J. Schachner had earned his nickname along with the doctorate in astronautical

within its docking cradle. We were still gazing up at our ship when, very quietly, the door slid shut behind us. “Oh, hell,” Rain muttered. “I don’t like the looks of…” At that instant, the wall panels lit up, each displaying a different image. A north polar projection of the Milky Way galaxy, overlaid with a halo grid upon which a star near the center of the Orion Arm was circled: Rho Coronae Borealis, if my guess was right. A schematic view of Talus qua’spah, with a tiny saucer near its outer

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