The Luxor Worlds security let them pass through the perimeter. The magic of the Sound of Silence seemed to be working. Perry pressed a button on the comm, and the bridge was filled with the soft tones of violins and the voice of a woman singing …

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The caretaker looked at the man as he walked past, just a few steps away.

He could smell it. He could smell th…

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Carl looked up from his console.

“I have our expert here,” he said.

“Put her on the screen.”

The emptiness of space on the panoramic screen was replaced by the smiling face of an old lady under a white hair bun. It was like suddenly being dropped o…

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Consciousness switched on like a warning light. Suddenly, there it was. A circle of light in a world of darkness and non-being. Something had happened. Something had called him to life.

The Guardian stirred.

Bandages cracked. Dust flew up in littl…

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“Can you fly this thing, Perry?”

Ayla looked at the pilot, who seemed to be struggling with the unfamiliar controls.

“I’ll manage.”

The ship was a Martian design. As the conflict between Earth and the Saturn Federation had escalated over the past f…

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A small torpedo shot out, seemingly from nowhere, flashed across the big screen and ended in an explosion at the side of one of the two smaller enemy ships.

Ayla could hear cursing over the speakers, alarms ringing, someone shouting orders.

“Joy,” Ayla spoke into her comm. …

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“Ships!” cried Perry as they all froze. “We’re surrounded!”

At this moment, half a dozen men in armour materialised at the back of the bridge, guns ready, aiming at the crew.

Lea spun around, drew her own gun while still turning, and in one fluid motion fired six flashes in…

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Luigi took a step inside, not quite believing his eyes. This is a bunker?

He quickly glanced at his wrist. The readouts showed a vacuum just like the one outside the bunker. Their helmet torches cut long, narrow cones of bluish light out of the darkness.

“It’s a cemetery,” …

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Ayla tapped the oxygen gauge with her fingertips. It didn’t move. It was a brass thing that Lea had found on a flea market trip somewhere on Dione, Mimas or Enceladus. A theatre prop, but it worked, most of the time. Who knew where it came from... Perhaps they could sell …

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This is chapter 1 of Celeste Rising, a SciFi pirate yarn. Have fun!

They stepped out of the hatch, slowly, carefully, floating to the ground in their heavy suits, like paper aeroplanes or fairground balloons. The comet's surface was stone covered by a thick layer of dirty brown ice. Soon it would begin to melt as Celeste moved closer to the sun, flaking …

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