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.
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.
I’ve always been scared of things that go bump in the night. Less so once I got a cat, but the fear of being invaded when you’re helpless makes sense to me.
If you’re drugged into a relaxing sleep, it could be a shock to wake up to see aliens staring at you. However, if you’re on a mission in deep space to cure Earth of an alien pandemic, that’s just one of the many challenges to overcome.
Enjoy this tiny excerpt from the trilogy finale that opens a universe of further adventures.
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Book Excerpt
Shoot for Earth: MedSci Missions 3
O’Bien woke to find mins staring at her. There was a shiny boxy vehicle nearby, and a half dozen mins outside the net. Everyone else was already awake, waiting quietly. “You finally woke,” a min said in an electronic voice. “Time to get in the truck, then. Stand back.” The humans complied, and the min fired a weapon that made the netting sizzle and disintegrate. They got into the truck to find there were no seats. Instead, there were rows of stations with robot-shaped hollows. Their guards snaped themselves into stations, leaving the Chiron party to sit cross legged on the hard, slippery floor and grab onto what they could as they bumped along. They arrived at a large rectangular building, with the look of rusted metal. A door barely wide enough for mins and people slid open and they entered. The ceiling was just high enough for a min bot to clear by an inch, giving the humans a few inches to a good foot of clearance. A min led them to a modest sized screen. O’Bien gasped at what she saw on it.
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