{"id":10990,"date":"2017-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2017-04-26T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:00:30","slug":"gunslinger-to-the-stars-excerpt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/gunslinger-to-the-stars-excerpt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunslinger to the Stars \u2014 excerpt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gorinal Star Cluster is, in every meaningful sense, the armpit of the galaxy. And it was just my luck to get stranded there when shit hit the fan.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know that at the time, of course. My ship, the Star Runner, was in pretty bad shape (Don\u2019t ask.), and except for the fuel in my tank, I was broke. Desperate as I was for work\u2014any kind of work\u2014the lawless Gorinal Cluster was the only real option for a gunslinger like me.<\/p>\n

The name\u2019s Sam, by the way. Sam Kletchka, of New Texas. I spent a year at Earthfleet Academy before dropping out on my twenty-first birthday to seek my fortune among the stars.<\/p>\n

Back in those days, Earthfleet was mostly just twentieth-century submarines and aircraft carriers, hastily repurposed and barely spaceworthy. Only three decades had passed since first contact with the galactics and we were still in a mad scramble to put as many colonies on the starmap as possible. With all of our resources tied up in the Gliese colonies, there was no boldly going for the class of \u201939.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we didn\u2019t have to seek out new life and new civilizations: they came to us. So, after dropping out of the Earthfleet Academy, I signed onto a Hyadean star freighter and never looked back.<\/p>\n

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\r\n\tGunslinger to the Stars<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
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\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> J.M. Wight<\/a><\/span>
\tSeries:<\/span> Gunslinger Trilogy<\/a>, Book 1<\/span>
\tGenres:<\/span> Action & Adventure<\/a>, Science Fiction<\/a>, Space Opera<\/a><\/span>
\tTag:<\/span> 2017 Release<\/a><\/span>
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Sam Kletchka here, freelance gunslinger and interstellar privateer. This, my friends, is how I went from being stranded in the armpit of the galaxy to becoming the luckiest human being in the universe.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div>

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The Gorinal Star Cluster is, in every meaningful sense, the armpit of the galaxy. And it was just my luck to get stranded there when shit hit the fan. I didn\u2019t know that at the time, of course. My ship, the Star Runner, was in pretty bad shape (Don\u2019t ask.), and except for the fuel… Continue reading Gunslinger to the Stars \u2014 excerpt 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1002,1080],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gunslinger-to-the-stars","category-gunslinger-trilogy","tag-excerpts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2Rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11005,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/11005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}