said Alex under his breath as he watched them close in on the ship.“Incoming,” said Professor Baltadonis. “I’m even seeing these puppies on radar.”Alex looked at Mary. She saw them too but her eyes were on Alex.“It’s them, isn’t it?” she asked.Alex nodded and slumped back in his seat as they appr...
Cruising steadily downward in the middle of the river of air, their progress was slowed by a strong headwind, but for the most part it was clear sailing. In fact, the only obstacle to their progress had been the ‘snakes’, Tony’s term for something he’d spotted on the radar fifteen hours into the ...
After some agonized probing, he decided the small round red mark had been made by the radio’s antenna post slamming into his skin. Around the spot was an alarmingly large purple bruise. The glow of the morning sun filtering through the orange nylon of his tent didn’t make his wounds look any pret...
He found himself dreaming of Gert. They were having a crazy argument. It had Johnny laughing almost hysterically.“How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” said his aunt.“What if it’s called a groundhog?” asked Johnny.“How much ground could a groundhog hog, if a gro...
But there had been no catastrophes on the faster than light ship Goddard’s mission to the red dwarf star Lalande. Not that there hadn’t been close shaves. Within the great blue spot on the ancient star system’s inner gas giant, the planet they called Bubba, an alien race older than the earth had ...