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    Galactic Cadets: Kids in Space
    Galactic Cadets: Kids in Space
    Galactic Cadets: Kids in Space
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    Galactic Cadets: Kids in Space

    By Debbie Mumford

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    Space may be the final frontier, but it doesn't belong to adult explorers alone. Families will populate our future and that means there will be kids in space. Future kids may live in very different environments from where we live today, but they'll still be kids!

     

    Get to know Cinnamon, a pre-teen girl growing up on a space station who is determined to be a detective… just like her dad. And then there's Blake, a young boy on a journey to the stars aboard a generational starship.

     

    Come along for the journey of a lifetime!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWDM Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2022
    ISBN9798201159344
    Galactic Cadets: Kids in Space
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    Debbie Mumford

    Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

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      Book preview

      Galactic Cadets - Debbie Mumford

      Galactic Cadets

      Galactic Cadets

      Kids in Space

      Deb Logan

      WDM Publishing

      Contents

      Introduction

      The Case of the Missing Inarian

      Space Station Detective

      Acknowledgments

      The Case of the Glittering Hoard

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Acknowledgments

      Chattermaster

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      The Case of the Recreational Thief

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      The Case of the Vanishing Puppy

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Epilogue

      Also by Deb Logan

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      About Deb Logan

      Introduction

      I love imagining our future in space. The adventure! The unknown! The possibility of meeting alien races. Too exciting.

      I also enjoy imagining the families who will populate that future, in those unknown places. Because our future in space doesn’t belong to adult explorers alone. There will be kids in space, and though their environments will be very different from today’s kids, they’ll still be just that… kids.

      I hope you enjoy meeting my Galactic Cadets. I’ve definitely enjoyed telling their stories.

      —Deb

      The Case of the Missing Inarian

      Inarian

      Space Station Detective

      My name is Cinnamon Chou, and I’m a detective.

      Okay, I’m a kid, but I’m going to be a detective when I grow up. Just like my dad. For now, I’m practicing on the easy stuff. You know, like lost full-spectrum goggles (They’re perched on top of your head, Master Engineer Wyandotte), missing red silk slippers (Got ’em, Mrs. Abrega! When was the last time you cleaned under your bed?), or my favorite, The Case of the Missing Inarian.

      What’s an Inarian? I’m glad you asked.

      An Inarian is a warm-blooded denizen of the planet Inaria. They’re cute and cuddly and definitely don’t meet the standard of intelligence necessary to classify them as Class I Sapient Beings. Reading through my data links on old Earth biology, I’ve decided they’re pretty similar to hamsters. They make great pets, but they’re about as bright as deep space with no stars in sight.

      My best friend, Lando Maxon, has an Inarian named Dumpling. When Lando woke up that morning, he discovered that Dumpling had managed to escape from his habitat. Inarians may not be smart, but they can wriggle out of places you’d swear were tightly sealed.

      Normally, a Dumpling escape wouldn’t merit my intervention as a detective. Lando would just set out a bowl of Dumpling’s favorite treats and wait for his pet to get hungry. But today was not a normal day. Today Lando and his family were leaving the space station and returning to Centauri Three, their home planet.

      That’s one of the real bummers about living on a space station. Sooner or later all of your friends move away.

      Of course, the up side is that new friends cycle in constantly.

      At least, that’s what my mom tells me every time a close friend leaves for a distant star system. Dad says Mom is an optimist. He’s right, but so is she. By the time I grow up and take my place in the Universal Star League, I’ll have friends in so many star systems I’ll need my own database just to keep track of them all.

      Back to Dumpling. I was eating breakfast with Mom and Dad when Lando pinged my link. Lando Maxon, my link announced.

      Mom frowned at the link on my wrist. Not at the table, Cinnamon, she said, using her duty officer voice. You know the rules.

      I swallowed a mouthful of protein-rich, calcium-enhanced syntho-juice, wiped my mouth on a recycled napkin and said, But Mom, Lando is leaving the station in less than six hours. If I don’t answer him, I may not have another chance.

      Mom glanced at Dad, who nodded.

      Very well, Cinnamon, she said, Your father and I will make an exception this time. You are dismissed.

      I grabbed a slice of replicated toast, jumped out of my chair, and dashed for the door. I didn’t want to give Mom time to reconsider.

      Not that she would. Decisions were Mom’s life. As a senior officer assigned to the bridge of Space Station Zeta, Mom made hundreds of decisions. She was awesome. Cool and professional, with nerves of steel. Nobody messed with Mom.

      She was also beautiful, in a cool and commanding kind of way. Sleek black hair, dark chocolate skin, and eyes as green as all-clear lights. She had a spacer’s body, tall and willowy, but tough as nano-enhanced titanium.

      Dad, a detective assigned to station security, was a genetic throw-back. Despite being born on Cygnus 12, his DNA identified him as ethnic Chinese. He wasn’t exactly short, but he wasn’t tall and willowy like Mom. Dad had a compact strength, like a compressed spring. And smart. Oh yeah. Dad’s brain held onto facts like a super-computer, but with the ability to make intuitive leaps that computers still hadn’t mastered.

      Me? Dad says I’m the best of both of them. I’ve got Dad’s thought-processing brilliance combined with Mom’s decision-making skills. I just need time to develop my intuition and experience to feed my knowledge base.

      I’m also a genetic combination. Where Mom is dark-skinned and Dad is gold-hued, I’m … well, cinnamon

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