The Rock, The Memory, and The Sparrow
By L. Lynn Gray
Beck is having a very bad, no good, terrible, horrible week.
On his first training flight off-planet, he's thrown into the deep end with a flight instructor who has no patience for him and insults him every other word, a Captain who won't say what he means, and a janky landing on the asteroid surface of a space station called Grace that nearly turns them into a fireball.
On Grace, they're picking up a diplomatic delegation, two Long Memories whose sole job is to retain technical and scient...
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Beck is having a very bad, no good, terrible, horrible week.
On his first training flight off-planet, he's thrown into the deep end with a flight instructor who has no patience for him and insults him every other word, a Captain who won't say what he means, and a janky landing on the asteroid surface of a space station called Grace that nearly turns them into a fireball.
On Grace, they're picking up a diplomatic delegation, two Long Memories whose sole job is to retain technical and scientific knowledge from one generation to the next, a practice begun in the wake of the catastrophic computer failures a generation ago.
But Beck's dream of a future space-posting is put in jeopardy as he stumbles through the misunderstandings, double meanings, and strong personalities on their return journey. Culture clashes abound in this character-driven peek into the science fiction future of humans in the Cervantes System.
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