2 Novels by Mjke Wood
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Overview: Mjke was born on the Isle of Man and now lives in the Wirral, UK.
He began writing in his late twenties, then but took a break in order to concentrate on accountancy exams. He returned to writing in 2007, and became the first winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Writing competition.
Genre: Fiction > Science Fiction
Power for Two Minutes and Other Unrealities
"...one of the leading British short story writers..." - The Singularity Magazine
➢ Would you trust a six-year-old who’s prone to spaghetti tantrums to navigate your starship, because the adults messed up?
➢ A soldier: Engineered to fight, engineered to die, time and time again. How might he react when confronted by mortality for the very first time?
➢ A monster diesel robot with delicate and artistic sensibilities, on a mission to find freedom.
➢ Jazz, zoot suits, blades… and very evil shoes.
➢ And when your skin gets too loose, what can you do? Not a problem for a big man who plans ahead. Or is it?
Old Man in a Spacesuit
From Mjke Wood, award-winning author of the Sphere of Influence series, a light-hearted, near-future, sci-fi novel.
Harry Burton – HB to his friends – is a washed-out ex-author. He’s old, he’s knackered, and he’s psychologically fragile, still grieving for his wife, Anouk, who died over a decade earlier. All things considered, as a candidate for First Man on Mars, HB is the wrong stuff. Someone in recruitment evidently screwed up. But while HB would much rather ignore the mistake and sit in his favourite coffee shop, wallowing and pretending to write… He’s curious. What would it be like to train as an astronaut for a Mars mission? This is the stuff he used to write stories about. And he wants to see their faces, when he, a sorry old sack of brittle bones and neuroses, turns up on the space agency’s doorstep responding to their invitation? What would they say?
“Welcome”, is what they say. They’re happy to see him. And HB isn’t alone. There are other recruits, his age and with similar unlikely qualifications. Because it turns out there is a logic to sending old people to Mars.
Training begins and reawakens a feeling HB thought he’d lost forever. He meets someone, another recruit, Lana. She’s the polar opposite of Anouk, HB’s much missed wife. While Anouk was a free spirit, a mystic, a dream reader, Lana is scientifically grounded, logical, a cosmologist. Despite this, Lana and HB make a connection. It seems she has the power to reconcile the two disparate worlds, of science and mysticism, merging them into one coherent and remarkable theory.
Meanwhile, this whole preposterous Mars enterprise is getting serious, gathering pace, and might yet turn out to be more than mere politics and posturing. It might just happen.
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Requirements: ePUB, MOBI reader | 1.5 MB
Overview: Mjke was born on the Isle of Man and now lives in the Wirral, UK.
He began writing in his late twenties, then but took a break in order to concentrate on accountancy exams. He returned to writing in 2007, and became the first winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Writing competition.
Genre: Fiction > Science Fiction
Power for Two Minutes and Other Unrealities
"...one of the leading British short story writers..." - The Singularity Magazine
➢ Would you trust a six-year-old who’s prone to spaghetti tantrums to navigate your starship, because the adults messed up?
➢ A soldier: Engineered to fight, engineered to die, time and time again. How might he react when confronted by mortality for the very first time?
➢ A monster diesel robot with delicate and artistic sensibilities, on a mission to find freedom.
➢ Jazz, zoot suits, blades… and very evil shoes.
➢ And when your skin gets too loose, what can you do? Not a problem for a big man who plans ahead. Or is it?
Old Man in a Spacesuit
From Mjke Wood, award-winning author of the Sphere of Influence series, a light-hearted, near-future, sci-fi novel.
Harry Burton – HB to his friends – is a washed-out ex-author. He’s old, he’s knackered, and he’s psychologically fragile, still grieving for his wife, Anouk, who died over a decade earlier. All things considered, as a candidate for First Man on Mars, HB is the wrong stuff. Someone in recruitment evidently screwed up. But while HB would much rather ignore the mistake and sit in his favourite coffee shop, wallowing and pretending to write… He’s curious. What would it be like to train as an astronaut for a Mars mission? This is the stuff he used to write stories about. And he wants to see their faces, when he, a sorry old sack of brittle bones and neuroses, turns up on the space agency’s doorstep responding to their invitation? What would they say?
“Welcome”, is what they say. They’re happy to see him. And HB isn’t alone. There are other recruits, his age and with similar unlikely qualifications. Because it turns out there is a logic to sending old people to Mars.
Training begins and reawakens a feeling HB thought he’d lost forever. He meets someone, another recruit, Lana. She’s the polar opposite of Anouk, HB’s much missed wife. While Anouk was a free spirit, a mystic, a dream reader, Lana is scientifically grounded, logical, a cosmologist. Despite this, Lana and HB make a connection. It seems she has the power to reconcile the two disparate worlds, of science and mysticism, merging them into one coherent and remarkable theory.
Meanwhile, this whole preposterous Mars enterprise is getting serious, gathering pace, and might yet turn out to be more than mere politics and posturing. It might just happen.
Download Instructions:
https://mega4up.org/liksetz5yp7w
Mirror:
https://dropgalaxy.vip/2zs7hvy6hbbk
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