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    The Moonrings
    The Moonrings
    The Moonrings
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    The Moonrings

    By George Watson

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    Fifty three years ago during the first incursion by the alien warrior race of the Trills, his betrothed had disappeared.
    Finally, as the long and costly conflict that Earth could endure no longer winds to a close and on the eve of a desperately needed peace treaty, he learned of her fate; Grand Admiral Nimitz goes into shock and no one can bring him back!
    The plans for the peace treaty are in jeopardy!
    An obscure Combat Engineer Captain Fletcher Grey holds the key, but where is he? Thrown out of the navy two years earlier after a Trill had sliced him he has come to terms with his disability and lowly position on Luna as a 'Metal Micky'.
    He thinks he is relatively happy, all things considered until 'They' find him.
    ‘Hope springs eternal’ is an oft said adage. What is not often said is, ‘So does hate’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Watson
    Release dateMay 19, 2020
    ISBN9780463805244
    The Moonrings
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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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      The Moonrings - George Watson

      THE MOON RINGS

      By George H. Y. Watson.

      This Smashwords short read is licensed for your personal enjoyment. If you would like to share this book with another person, please download an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not download it, or it was not downloaded for your use only, then please return to your favourite eBook retailer and download your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Copyright George H.Y. Watson. Dec 2019 Smashwords Edition.

      Cover Design by George H.Y. Watson.

      Cover Illustration by Tomas Budack.

      CONTENTS

      THE MOON RINGS

      Fifty three years ago during the first incursion by the alien warrior race of the Trills, his betrothed had disappeared. Finally, as the long and costly conflict that Earth could endure no longer wound to a close and on the eve of a desperately needed peace treaty, he learned of her fate.

      ‘Hope springs eternal’ is an oft said adage. What is not often said is, ‘So does hate’.

      Previously published in Smashwords Books in `INTO THE GREAT DARKNESS´, December 2019.

      Other books by the author.

      THE MOON RINGS

      Year 53 of The Trill War. Tycho Brae shipyards, Luna.

      I had been out of The Service for over two years and thought I was adapting to civilian life very well, all things considered.

      Until They came back for me.

      I remember the night well. I was so happy until then.

      In shipyard number 67 I had managed to get a low level mechanical design position because I was a Vet and from the office windows my dear friends and I, better known as ‘The Metal-Mickeys’s’ would watch the frenzied construction of yet another warship in hard vacuum. But for my friends and me it was a sedate, quiet time free from the constant fear and worry that had filled our Navy lives on active service.

      Now might be a good point to enlighten some of you non-engineering types. Did you know that no two navy vessels of the same type are exactly the same? They may look identical, but because of their gigantic dimensions they are each unique and that is why the Metal-Mickeys’s are employed in large numbers on the night shifts in all of the shipyards. Each warship is covered by its own specifically designed Armoured Tiles, millions of them. The Type 45 destroyer taking shape in front of me was to have over two million and I had just completed the complex three dimensional designs for Tile No. 323 that would be located on Port Armoured Turret No. 7.

      In my dreams I envisaged working there for many years and possibly saving enough to buy my own Habitation Module. Then, maybe some Senorita who didn’t mind too much that I was a low-level ‘Metal

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