Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Quantum Troopers Episode 18: Geoplanes
    Quantum Troopers Episode 18: Geoplanes
    Quantum Troopers Episode 18: Geoplanes
    Ebook97 pages1 hour

    Quantum Troopers Episode 18: Geoplanes

    By Philip Bosshardt

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Episode 18, Quantum Troopers. Johnny Winger has returned from a successful mission against Lions Rock. But now Red Hammer has geoplanes too; they’re threatening New York and other major cities. A new weapon called a sonic lens is developed. It works but a test nearly kills Winger and his crew. Only an Inuit shaman saves them from a grisly underground death in the Canadian Arctic. Now the Table Top base itself is threatened. Nanotroopers must somehow work together with rockheads from Boundary Patrol to save the base from being destroyed in a series of man-made quakes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateJan 6, 2017
    ISBN9781370411863
    Quantum Troopers Episode 18: Geoplanes
    Author

    Philip Bosshardt

    Philip Bosshardt is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He works for a large company that makes products everyone uses...just check out the drinks aisle at your grocery store. He’s been happily married for over 20 years. He’s also a Georgia Tech graduate in Industrial Engineering. He loves water sports in any form and swims 3-4 miles a week in anything resembling water. He and his wife have no children. They do, however, have one terribly spoiled Keeshond dog named Kelsey.For details on his series Tales of the Quantum Corps, visit his blog at qcorpstimes.blogspot.com or his website at http://philbosshardt.wix.com/philip-bosshardt.

    Read more from Philip Bosshardt

    Related to Quantum Troopers Episode 18

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Rescue Of Raindancer

      May 11, 2023

      The Rescue Of Raindancer
      9 min read

    • Article

      Design From Experience

      Sep 12, 2019

      In 1965 a young American designer, Dick Carter, met up with Bernard Hayman of Yachting World in the cockpit of Dick’s new race boat Rabbit. Yachting World recognised a mould-breaking yacht when it saw one and Hayman went on to publish Rabbit’s lines

      8 min read

    • Article

      Winging It

      Jan 2, 2024

      As the 70-foot Sunseeker drifted down on us in the dark, I couldn’t stand it any longer. I lurched forward on deck in my bathrobe, screaming and clapping, trying to get their attention before they hit us. My mate was prone on the bow of the bucking k

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Shedful Of Adventure

      Jul 14, 2023

      A Shedful Of Adventure
      5 min read

    • Article

      Holding Power

      Sep 11, 2020

      Holding Power
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Passage To Greenland

      Oct 16, 2018

      A Passage To Greenland
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Goldilocks Planet

      Jan 14, 2021

      The Goldilocks Planet
      7 min read

    • Article

      Making Do

      Jul 18, 2017

      Making Do
      1 min read

    • Article

      Into The Jaws Of Hell

      Mar 16, 2023

      Into The Jaws Of Hell
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Bear Necessities

      Oct 1, 2021

      The Bear Necessities
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Bear Necessities

      Oct 1, 2021

      The Bear Necessities
      6 min read

    • Article

      It’s The Way You Tell It

      Oct 13, 2023

      It’s The Way You Tell It
      3 min read

    • Article

      Steeple-chasing The Otago Mole

      Jul 30, 2020

      Last month I left the good Professor and his yacht Yvonne “jilling about” at the Otago Harbour Heads just on dusk on Christmas Eve 1909. In 1928 Scott wrote about the wild events of that night in an article in Yachting magazine. Yvonne was one of nin

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Hopeless Place

      May 14, 2019

      A Hopeless Place
      11 min read

    • Article

      More Things In Heaven

      Dec 10, 2021

      It’s the deep mid-winter, when sailors check their warps, settle down in lamp-lit saloons, top up their bogey stoves and pour themselves a dram. If they’re in tune with the outside world, they’ll also shut off the flickering screens, kill the music m

      5 min read

    • Article

      Sunk By A Whale

      Oct 8, 2020

      Sunk By A Whale
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Last Man In England

      Dec 1, 2021

      The Last Man In England
      5 min read

    • Article

      Treasure Of The Sloop Washington

      Jan 19, 2017

      Treasure Of The Sloop Washington
      8 min read

    • Article

      WRECK Ommendations

      Feb 22, 2016

      Written by Richie Kohler with Charlie Hudson I am fortunate to be able to review many books about truly historical shipwrecks. Some are more exceptional than others. When our dear friend, Richie Kohler, presented his new book, Mystery of the Last Oly

      7 min read

    • Article

      Shock and Awe

      Aug 10, 2021

      Shock and Awe
      11 min read

    • Article

      Going Over The Top

      Apr 2, 2019

      Going Over The Top
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Boneyard Boat

      Oct 16, 2018

      The Boneyard Boat
      4 min read

    • Article

      Death of Endurance

      Mar 31, 2022

      Death of Endurance
      5 min read

    • Article

      Eulogy for Zingaro

      May 19, 2020

      Eulogy for Zingaro
      7 min read

    • Article

      Miraculous Navigation

      Jun 5, 2020

      Miraculous Navigation
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Quantum Troopers Episode 18

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Quantum Troopers Episode 18 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 18: Geoplanes

      Published by Philip Bosshardt at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Philip Bosshardt

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A few words about this series….

      *** Quantum Troopers is a series of 15,000- 20,000 word episodes detailing the adventures of Johnny Winger and his experiences with the United Nations Quantum Corps.

      *** Each episode will be about 40-50 pages, approximately 20,000 words in length.

      *** A new episode will be available and uploaded every 3 weeks.

      *** There will be 22 episodes. The story will be completely serialized in about 14 months.

      *** Each episode is a stand-alone story but will advance the greater theme and plot of the story arc.

      *** The main plotline: U.N. Quantum Corps must defeat the criminal cartel Red Hammer’s efforts to steal or disable their new nanorobotic ANAD systems.

      *** Uploads will be made to www.smashwords.com on approximately the schedule below:

      Episode # Title Approximate Upload Date

      1 ‘Atomgrabbers’ 1-14-16

      2 ‘Nog School’ 2-8-16

      3 ‘Deeno and Mighty Mite’ 2-29-16

      4 ‘ANAD’ 3-21-16

      5 ‘Table Top Mountain’ 4-11-16

      6 ‘I, Lieutenant John Winger…’ 5-2-16

      7 ‘Hong Chui’ 5-23-16

      8 ‘Doc Barnes’ 6-13-16

      9 ‘Demonios of Via Verde’ 7-5-16

      10 ‘The Big Bang’ 7-25-16

      11 ‘Engebbe’ 8-15-16

      12 ‘The Symbiosis Project’ 9-5-16

      13 ‘Small is All!’ 9-26-16

      14 ‘’The HNRIV Factor’ 10-17-16

      15 ‘A Black Hole’ 11-7-16

      16 ‘ANAD on Ice’ 11-29-16

      17 ‘Lions Rock’ 12-19-16

      18 ‘Geoplanes’ 1-9-17

      19 ‘Mount Kipwezi’ 1-30-17

      20 ‘Doc II’ 2-20-17

      21 ‘Paryang Monastery’ 3-13-17

      22 ‘Epilogue’ 4-3-17

      Chapter 1

      Fault Zone

      Palawan Beach, Sentosa Island

      Singapore

      August 20, 2049

      1045 hours (U.T.)

      It was a beautiful summer morning on Palawan Beach as hundreds of children, families, sunbathers and beachgoers gathered for another day in the tropical sun. Miles of white sand, laced with gently swaying palm trees and the occasional beach bar invited the indulgent to relax and enjoy the turquoise waters of Palawan Strait and follow the masts of the container ships on the horizon, maneuvering to enter the navigation channel and the harbor.

      Shortly before eleven in the morning, amidst the jetskiers and the windsurfers, a child came splashing out of the waves, shrieking and screaming at the top of her lugs, gesturing at something in the water. Sentosa hadn’t had a shark or dolphin sighting in years, but that wasn’t what had so frightened the child. As a few adults gathered around to sweep up the little girl and try to calm her, one of them pointed to a rising hump in the waves, a hundred meters off shore.

      "Tsunami!" someone cried. Indeed the building wave did at first glance resemble the surging wall of seawater that presaged an oncoming tsunami. But it wasn’t a tsunami. The growing bulge in the water was only a few dozen meters broad.

      "A whale!" someone else cried. There did seem to be a pronounced hump to the swell of the waves as the thing that had frightened more than one child continued to grow.

      It’s a giant sea turtle…that’s what it is! another adult decided.

      By now, the broad glistening back of something big was unmistakable. It breached the surface of the ocean in an explosive spray of water and steam, then rocked on its side and made steadily for the beach.

      Sunbathers and families scattered in terror. A Beach Patrol officer opened fire with his sidearm, to no affect. Jet skiers fled the area, arcing rooster-tails of spray behind them. Windsurfers kicked off their boards and paddled frantically for shore.

      The beast plunged through the surf line and rode over the tops of hissing breakers, then drove itself up onto the beach. It looked like a giant armored beetle, maybe twenty meters in length, rounded on top, clad in some kind of metallic shielding. The beetle sported a hardened carapace on top, which now gleamed in the humid morning air, as it shed curtains of water off its sides and back.

      It wasn’t a tsunami. It wasn’t a whale. It wasn’t a sea turtle.

      It was geoplane Mole.

      Suddenly, a hatch clanked open toward the rear of the beast. A head popped out, blinking hard in the strong sunshine.

      Good morning, smiled Johnny Winger.

      Singapore Base was a miniature replica of Table Top itself, complete down to the Containment Facility, the Sim and Wargaming center, the Ops quadrangle and the lift pads. Only the snowy peaks of Buffalo Ridge were missing, replaced with palm trees and mangrove stumps and the strong smell of salt air. The languid tropical waters of the Selatar River slapped wooden piers near the lift pads as the weary, bedraggled detachment dismounted from the crewtrac. The vehicle had picked up the Tectonic Sword crew from Mole and driven them across the city to Quantum Corps Eastern Command’s base.

      In the eastern sky, orange fingers of midday sunlight probed puffy cumulus clouds. Thunderstorm clouds were building to the south, boiling out of the tropics over the southern end of the Malay Peninsula. Torrential rains were only a few hours away.

      Colonel Sanjay Singh was the base commander at Singapore. A doughty sunburned Indian Sikh, Singh sported a luxurious, probably non-reg moustache with tight curls at the ends, which he absent-mindedly twirled as he talked. His face was like weather-beaten leather and his grip in a handshake was bone-crushing.

      Welcome to the East, Lieutenant, Singh greeted Winger and the bedraggled assault team from Mole. Your arrival here was somewhat, shall we say, unusual.

      Winger apologized for that. We were stalked by a Chinese submarine all the way from Hong Kong. He described the game of hide and seek that Mole had played with the Ming-class attack boat. The geoplane had trundled across the seafloor of the South China Sea for hundreds of kilometers, hiding in ravines, between hills and seamounts, playing dead, always alert for the sub to pounce like a stalking cat at any moment. Once we reached Malaysian territorial waters, a UNISEA sub showed up and chased them away. We rode in along the seabed all the way to that beach.

      Singh smiled ruefully, offering strong coffee and a few trays of sweets to the team. I’m afraid you’ll be the top story on our news vids today. And your Major Kraft is conferencing in to my office in ten minutes. Perhaps, you’d like to freshen up?

      Winger, Galland and the rest of the Tectonic Sword detachment took Singh up on his offer. A short while later, he and Galland were ensconced in Singh’s office when Jurgen Kraft’s head-avatar materialized like a djinn

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1