Terminal
Lucidity, Now on Audiobook (Amazon)
The short science fiction story
“Terminal Lucidity” is
now on audiobook, via Amazon, as
well as in ebook format.
It is also something of a
whodunit mystery, set on a distant planet.
It is about a
bit over an hour of listening
on audiobook, somewhat less when read in ebook form.
Terminal Lucidity – SF Short Fiction, on Amazon
A
lone agent is discovered orbiting a newly discovered exoplanet.
Though his mind has been badly damaged, it is believed to hold vital
secrets about a threatening alien species. But, can the medical staff
uncover these secrets in time to prevent an interstellar war? Might
one of them be a saboteur, working for the other side? And will their
efforts, if successful, mean death for the agent and tragedy for his
young daughter?
“We
have reason to believe that the last expedition had made contact with
the aliens and had gained some vital intelligence about them. We know
that, but that’s all we know. All other contact with the expedition
was lost before we received any of the details.
“Agent
X was the only surviving member of that expedition. A rescue team
found him on a small craft, orbiting Mendel. He couldn’t even speak
and he soon fell into a coma, the state in which he was when you
began your treatments. His mind was very diseased.”
“And
you need us to dig that information out of his diseased mind,”
Louise said.
The
General nodded.
“Yes,
the loss of our missions now seem to indicate that we are in a state
of undeclared war with this species, a cold war if you will. But
there are signs of hyper-space disruption in this system, all out of
proportion to the limited activities of our spacecraft. We fear that
the alien species may be mobilizing. A hot war may follow at any
time. Earth may even be a target, as they could have calculated our
originating location from the trail of our own spacecrafts’
hyper-space disruptions. If not from that, then perhaps from our
electromagnetic signals, whether in hyper-space or normal space. We
just don’t know.”
“Thus,
the urgency,” Charles said. “Thus, Terminal Lucidity.”
The
story is about 13,000 words, or about 60 or
so minutes
at typical reading speeds.
It’s 99 cents
U.S., equivalent price in other currencies. It is also available on
Kindle Unlimited and is periodically on a free promotion.
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