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Wendy E Gamble
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Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Jailbird Engineer
It’s both intriguing and challenging to write a personality-challenged genius chief engineer for a deep spaceship. I admire him, feel sorry for him, and perhaps sometimes find him annoying, but he is what he is. He fell so deeply in love, or perhaps in need, that he took a desperate action (in book two, Ripped Genes) that was highly illegal. What kind of person puts their genius mind to work learning how to do brain surgery to revive a comatose girlfriend? A mentally ill one, probably. He still chose his actions, though. Now he’s in the odd position of being the only person on board who can really run the Quantum Displacement Drive he invented, as well as being otherwise indispensable. Unfortunately for the Captain, he tries to use that to his advantage . . . .
Book Excerpt
Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3
Karen O’Bien turned to Roed. “You can get back to the brig now. I do thank you for your help.”
Roed sighed. “Yup.” He headed off in the wrong direction.
“Commander!” O’Bien said sharply. “You can’t see Sophie first.”
“She’s right around the corner,” Roed protested.
The Ambassador shook her head. “The point of the brig is for you to turn a corner, but not that one. Think about it. You operated on her without her permission – without anyone’s permission – and made her a conscious mobile person with an addled brain that’s part dead person. Worse, you implanted yourself all over her memory as her great love. Do you think she wants to see you?”
“Definitely! I made sure of that,” Roed said quickly, then looked like he regretted it. “I mean. . . .”
Ambassador O’Bien frowned. “Let me re-word. Do you think you deserve to see her?”
Roed fidgeted morosely and said nothing.
O’Bien gave an exasperated sigh. “Do I have to call security?”
“No,” Roed said, sounding depressed. He headed for the maglev.
“We’ll be watching your tracker,” the DOR called after him.
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