by Ben Winston
So many questions and no answers. That was the reason the Prime Councilor had sent them to rescue this girl. He hoped to be able to learn something of the world they have found themselves in. The possibilities seemed endless. Did the Sal'andori return to make war on the human race? What about that other race the records mentioned; the lizards? When humanity left the planet, they had been poorly equipped to defend themselves; fleeing defeat and the loss of their home world. Where had they gone? Who had they met?
Answers.
They needed answers, and needed them badly. The girl they had pulled from the wreckage didn't seem all that old, but she seemed calm enough. Considering her injuries and the fact that she had to be in a lot of pain, the rescuers felt a grudging respect for her and a little protectiveness. The PA told them that the computer in her pod said she wasn't used to this atmosphere would appear to be drunk until she got used to it. The girl had become used to more helium, CO, and other trace gasses that simply didn't exist in those quantities in normal Earth air. So how and more important, why did she breath a different atmosphere than they did? That didn't make sense at all. The PA shrugged her ignorance of the answer. It was just another question to add to the pile already awaiting the girl once they got her back to base.
Where to take her had never been a question to the team. Ben was the Prime Councilor and he needed the answers this girl had, so she would be taken to the Command Pod Medical Unit. There she would be allowed to heal before she was questioned for her knowledge. At least the girl didn't seem dangerous. Two of the grunts said they would stay with her and provide a guard detail while she was being treated. They would be protecting her as much as they would be protecting the survivors.
Yes, this girl would be questioned, because they all desperately needed her knowledge; with any luck at all the people of the surface world would think the young girl to have drown and not come looking for her.
About the Author
Ben Winston (1965 - ?) was born in Iowa and grew up in Minnesota on the family dairy farm. Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the United States Army as a communications technician. Before getting out of the military, he decided to go to school for computer electronics.
Shortly after getting out of the military, and after getting a new job with an over-seas company, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. A month after beginning the new job, he was laid off due to budget over-runs on the project he was hired for. Upon returning to the United States, he had difficulty maintaining employment because of the chronic illness.
He began writing as a form of stress release, from being home bound and not being able to work, and found he liked writing erotica. Ben wrote a trilogy called the Talosian Chronicles (Currently in rewrite to remove the graphic sex and finalized his vision of the story). The first book, Star Dancer, won awards and was nominated for many others by the online communities where it was posted.
Ben Winston returned to school for literature, after completion, he began writing professionally. Being an avid fan of science fiction he focused on this genre. He was, and still is, influenced and inspired by Gene Roddenberry, Anne McCaffery, David Weber, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury. Some of his favorite movies and TV shows are; Battlestar Galactica (both versions), Andromeda, Star Trek, Firefly, Star Wars, and many of the B-rated movies that were actually box-office bombs.
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Books Published by Blue Space Publications, LLC.
by Ben Winston
Pollux Paradox
Tides of Mars
Tides of Mars (Omnibus)
Ascension – Book I
Conflict – Book II
Talosian Chronicles
Olympus – Book I
Star Dancer – Book II
Talosian Alliance – Book III
*Neptune’s Massif – Book IV (Upcoming)
Novellas
Book of the Guardian
Home – Part One
Pest Control – Part Two
The Last Mission – Part Three
Resolution – Part Four
Bedouin’s Travels
Twilight Earth – Book I
*A Long, Dark Night – Book II (Oct 2015)
*Terra Dawning – Book III (Upcoming)
Series
Temple of S.A.R.A.H.
Prototype – Episode I
Subroutines – Episode II
Base Functions – Episode III
*Hard Wired – Episode IV (Sept 2015)
by Michael McClain
Chronicles of Atlantis Series
Chronicles of Atlantis (Omnibus)
Atlantis Rising – Book I
Euthara – Book II
