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    The Golden BB
    The Golden BB
    The Golden BB
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    The Golden BB

    By Louis Shalako

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    The first interstellar probe in human history has a mind of its own—or rather, four of them. A short science fiction story of the very near future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouis Shalako
    Release dateFeb 6, 2017
    ISBN9781988621036
    The Golden BB
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    Louis Shalako

    Louis Shalako is the founder of Long Cool One Books and the author of twenty-two novels, numerous novellas and other short stories. Louis studied Radio, Television and Journalism Arts at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology, later going on to study fine art. He began writing for community newspapers and industrial magazines over thirty years ago. His stories appear in publications including Perihelion Science Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Aurora Wolf, Ennea, Wonderwaan, Algernon, Nova Fantasia, and Danse Macabre. He lives in southern Ontario and writes full time. Louis enjoys cycling, swimming and good books.

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      The Golden BB - Louis Shalako

      The Golden BB

      Louis Shalako

      Copyright 2016 Louis Shalako and Long Cool One Books

      Design: J. Thornton

      ISBN 978-1-988621-03-6

      The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or deceased, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental. Names, places, settings, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination.

      Table of Contents

      Act One

      Act Two

      Act Three

      About the Author

      The Golden BB

      Louis Shalako

      Act One

      There was no single moment in time when it could be said that they had arrived. The triple-star system Gliese 667 lay almost directly ahead, less than a degree off their present trajectory. A near miss was nothing unexpected. At such vast distances, small discrepancies in measurements for launches made from Earth’s solar system would result in some big numbers out here in terms of course corrections.

      Gliese lay in the constellation Scorpius as seen from earth. They had hit a moving target, predicting where it would be when they got there. This was more than just tricky semantics.

      They were heading straight down that gravity well, like an old-fashioned glider. The Golden BB was already in its clutches. They could maneuver on the way down, or they could make a few decisions and soar onwards. Their initial momentum was great enough to escape the system if the team elected to do so. There was no real good reason, although a couple

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