If they had hit that station, they would have put a very, very large hole in it. Their screens would have kept them safe, but the station and everyone on it would have been in trouble, if not killed instantly.
“Wow, good catch, Fisher,” Doc said. “Looks like we have a space-faring culture on this planet.”
“Great, just great,” Fisher said. “Someone to chase us again after we almost destroy their space station.”
Doc laughed. “Yeah, we have a way of making an entrance, don’t we?”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres.
At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.
His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.
During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.
Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series.
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Star Rain
Copyright © 2016 by Dean Wesley Smith
Published in a different form in Smith’s Monthly #26, November, 2015
Published by WMG Publishing
Cover and Layout copyright © 2016 by WMG Publishing
Cover design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing
Cover art copyright © Luca Oleastri/Dreamstime
This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
Table of Contents
Dedication
SECTION ONE
PROLOGUE
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
SECTION TWO
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
SECTION THREE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SECTION FOUR
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
SECTION FIVE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
SECTION SIX
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
SECTION SEVEN
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
Against Time
Chapter One
Chapter Two
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