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Wendy E Gamble
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Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Flipping a Coin on Death
If you had the technical prowess to possibly cure yourself of a disease, but it might kill you, what would you do? The answer is probably different for each of us. It would depend on so many factors. Age, pain level, percent chances, social connections … . The character in this mini-excerpt from the trilogy finale that opens a universe of further adventures has been ill a long time. Once before, he managed to give himself something close to a cure, though it also made him manifest alien characteristics. Now he has the choice of his life. Or death! (Click “profile” to see my science fiction books available now.)
Book Excerpt
Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3
He could roll dice. Flip a coin. He didn’t actually have a coin, no one used them anymore except for flipping. He had dice in his room, but that would mean locking up then looking odd going back in. He looked around the room for a two-sided object. Hmm. Never mind, he thought. Thirteen vs fourteen. Thirteen was bad luck, right? So he’d take mod fourteen. Life or death. Real life, back to his old self, or almost certain death. No way to know, so he’d just get it done. He wasn’t altruistic enough to do such a test on himself for the sake of everyone else, but that was a wonderful bonus. If he died, Scott and everyone else would still know which mod to give the world.
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