Understanding the Impossible

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Wendy E Gamble

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Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3

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The conclusion to a medical crisis on Earth in a trilogy that introduces a new universe of adventures. Specialists from spaceship Chiron are working with alien scientists while furtively aiding a secret science society on the planet. However, that shortcut to solving Earth’s problem could endanger their relationship with planetary officials. Meanwhile, Chiron deals with aliens on nearby planets to gain more information and goodwill as they solve some of the neighbourhood’s problems. Armed with new information, they meet back at their new home base, but soon find their relationship with the planet’s government strained. Desperate to gain back the trust and aid of the innovative aliens, the crew of Chiron find themselves involved in interplanetary conflict as they strive to produce a vaccine to send home to Earth.

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My fiction writing brings together years of science studies, work in heath care, and training and assistant teaching as a black belt in karate. After reading stacks of science fiction in my youth, I was inspired by space adventures such as Star Trek and medical thrillers by Dr. Robin Cook. Before publishing Earth and Beyond, I had articles on art and science fiction published in print and on-line magazines and served as editor for a newsletter/magazine for several years. Selling fantasy art and approved paintings and products related to the Canadian Musical Ride prepared me for doing some graphic design for fellow visual artists and for my own novel cover and ads. In my town in New Brunswick, Canada, I run a writing group, am a literacy volunteer at school, and enjoys gardening, creative cooking, yoga, photography, kicking back to good movies and shows, and, of course, my family.

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Understanding the Impossible

It’s no wonder that the engineering staff on spaceship Chiron have trouble understanding how an engine can displace a ship from one point in deep space to another one. It shouldn’t be possible. Or is it? Quantum particles jump from one location to another without travelling. Why not a ship? In any case, re-creating travel similar to how a quantum particle moves is risky business. The Captain and crew desperately want to have more than one person understand the exact mechanism. Especially when that one person exhibits impossible-to-understand human behaviour!

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Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3

Walsh switched off and focused on keeping his body safe while he fumed. He called his chief operational engineer on the com again.
“Hugh, there’s a problem with Roed. Can you run the Quantum Displacement Drive?”
There was a long pause. “I’ve made every effort to learn the procedures in case of emergency. Is Roed ill?”
“Mentally. He’s trying to extort special treatment and denying he deserves prisoner status.”
Hugh sighed. “Honestly, our chances of surviving a displacement are ten to twenty percent higher if Roed is running the engine. It’s a big difference. If ad hoc adjustments are needed, he’s the one with the mental acuity to adjust the settings correctly. I’ve analysed our past QDs, and some of the little tweaks he makes seem to be intuitive and inexplicable. To me, anyway. I did try discussing them with him.”
“Understood,” Walsh said. “I’ll keep you posted.”
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Wendy E Gamble

Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3

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Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3

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