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    The Breakout Ship

    By George Watson

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    The Breakout Ship has haunted me ever since that day we found it near Pluto.
    Everyone is told that the Breakout Ship was an unoccupied alien spaceship found abandoned and drifting.
    But that’s just not true.
    I think the creatures on board would have given us all the technology they had, if we had asked.
    But we killed them all, stole the technology and created the first of Earth's Grand Fleets; 'Expeditionary Fleet No 1'.

    In the years following, the Expeditionary Fleets flew from Earth in all directions, desperately seeking signs of alien life.
    No life was ever found, only the remnants of long dead civilizations.
    But there was a bounty in the old ruins; Alien technology that could be duplicated and sometimes used for the greater good of mankind.
    Sometimes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Watson
    Release dateJun 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370338818
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    The Breakout Ship
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    George Watson

    After a long, career in engineering, where I worked on merchant ships, in various factories that produced Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Long Playing Records (yes those black plastic disc thingies about the size of a dinner plate and yes, I’m that old!) and latterly in Aircraft Design at Boeing and BAe, I was lucky enough to be able to retire to Spain.A great admirer of the older (of course) science fiction writers of the 50’s to 80’s I thought I would like to try to emulate them.As my wife likes to say, and does often, “At least it keeps you off the street corners and out of the Spanish bars...”

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