Cataclysm by Robert F. Lundrigan - Book Tour + Giveaway
Cataclysm:
Survival in a Barren World
Survival in a Barren World
by Robert F. Lundrigan
Genre:
SciFi Fantasy
SciFi Fantasy
The story is told from two points of view. The Clark family finds
themselves seemingly alone on a barren planet while an alien named
Pzx is in charge of the fleet looking for a home. She is under orders
but would prefer to communicate with other beings. This is a tale of
the struggles of both of them as they seek to survive in a barren world.
themselves seemingly alone on a barren planet while an alien named
Pzx is in charge of the fleet looking for a home. She is under orders
but would prefer to communicate with other beings. This is a tale of
the struggles of both of them as they seek to survive in a barren world.
The end of the three hundred year
journey is at hand and the flagship passes silently into the outer reaches of
Earth’s solar system. As programmed, the artificial brain is automatically
activated when the craft passes through Pluto’s magnetic influence, causing the
temperature and atmosphere of the cryonic chamber to change. At the same
instant, a signal is transmitted to the other space vessels and soon the entire
armada slows to sub warp speed and deploys to establish a parking orbit around
Mars, the planet nearest to its ultimate destination.
Slowly Pzx opens her eye and it takes
her but a moment to realize what seemed like no more than a good night’s sleep
has in fact, spanned three centuries. She stretches her stiff tentacles and
breathes as deeply as she possibly can to clear her lungs of the stale air,
while she looks carefully at the bank of instruments overhead to be certain
that all is in working order. Satisfying herself that all is as it should be
she projects the thought command that lifts the lid of the vacuum chamber that
has been her world for three hundred years, and slithers to the deck where she
anchors her base appendage to the foot-beam. She rubs her eye and seeing her
reflection in the chamber lid, decides that she looks terrible - just as she
does every morning until she’s had time to adjust her
plasma casing from rest to activity
mode. It’s extremely cold in the cryonic chamber but the twisting and turning
exercises she must go through to make her face cause her to forget the chill.
When she’s satisfied that she looks presentable enough for what she needs to
do, she slides slowly to the next capsule and extreme apprehension takes over
as she peers through the transparent lid at the still form of Hrnk. She engages
the activator switch and watches fondly, and the apprehension is replaced by
something else as he goes through his waking process. He
opens his eye and when he recognizes
Pzx his thought projections tell her that all is well with him. Pzx doesn’t
open the cover until she is certain that all of Hrnk’s vital signs are normal.
At the precise moment the cover is unlatched Hrnk’s reproductive organ begins
glowing with that unmistakable signal that is characteristic of all male
members of the Drmbkian race, a race dominated by females, a race where the
male’s only functions are reproduction and companionship. Although there is an
almost overwhelming desire within her to climb into the chamber with Hrnk, Pzx
closes the lid reluctantly and tears herself away from her mate.
She has so much to do and so many
duties to fulfill. Her first duty is that of activating the cryonic capsules of
the ninety nine other ships in the fleet so that they can can get on with the
business that has brought them to this new world, the world which they have
chosen to be their home, New Drmbk.
Robert F. Lundrigan is a certified member of APICS and former Manager of
Materials at General Electric. A native of Massachusetts, he
graduated from Lowell Institute in Mechanical Engineering and later
attended technical and creative writing workshops at Harvard. He has
helped several companies as a consultant to improve profits by using
the theory of constraints, with great success. Bob has written
numerous articles for professional journals, this is his second novel.
Materials at General Electric. A native of Massachusetts, he
graduated from Lowell Institute in Mechanical Engineering and later
attended technical and creative writing workshops at Harvard. He has
helped several companies as a consultant to improve profits by using
the theory of constraints, with great success. Bob has written
numerous articles for professional journals, this is his second novel.
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1 Comments
Great cover.
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