“If anyone\u2019s still alive\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can\u2019t be. If they were, they would have fixed the leak.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron bristled. \u201cHow do you know that? For all we know, the engineers are gone and none of the survivors knows what to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there are any survivors, why haven\u2019t they hailed us?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow should I know? All I know is that it\u2019s possible. You can\u2019t refute that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I guess I can\u2019t,<\/em> Isaac thought. Instead of admitting it, though, he kept silent, peering at the ghostly derelict as if lost in thought.<\/p>\n \u201cWe should dock and go in there,\u201d said Aaron. \u201cPeek inside, take a look around. Even if there aren\u2019t any survivors, maybe we can at least find out what happened to them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAre you crazy?\u201d said Isaac, his heart beating a little faster at his brother\u2019s suggestion. \u201cWe have no idea what\u2019s in there. For all we know, the place is infested with some sort of disease.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo we go in in EVA suits and take a quick sterilizing spacewalk before we come back. No big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s still a dumb idea. We\u2019re not going.\u201d<\/p>\n Aaron scowled and rolled his eyes. \u201cSo what, you just want to turn around and leave? Abandon this place without finding out what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s right. We know that the station is dead, and that\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut we don\u2019t know that,\u201d said Aaron, raising both of his hands. \u201cWe don\u2019t know hardly anything. All we know is that no one has answered our transmissions and there\u2019s a small reactor leak at the hub, but everything else looks fine.\u201d<\/p>\n It does not look fine,<\/em> Isaac thought to himself. His palms felt clammy, and he was already beginning to regret his decision to come to this system at all.<\/p>\n ==========<\/p>\n Brothers in Exile (Sons of the Starfarers, Book I)<\/strong> is coming out the weekend of May 17th. The cover art should be out soon–I’ll post it as soon as it is! In the meantime, I’ll keep posting these excerpts to give you a taste. If you’ve enjoyed Star Wanderers<\/strong> and the Gaia Nova<\/strong> books, I think you guys are really going to like this new series!<\/p>\n To be updated when it comes out, be sure to sign up for my email newsletter<\/a> if you haven’t already.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n Excerpt 1<\/a> “If anyone\u2019s still alive\u2014\u201d \u201cThey can\u2019t be. If they were, they would have fixed the leak.\u201d Aaron bristled. \u201cHow do you know that? For all we know, the engineers are gone and none of the survivors knows what to do about it.\u201d \u201cIf there are any survivors, why haven\u2019t they hailed us?\u201d \u201cHow should I… Continue reading Brothers in Exile — excerpt 4<\/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":"Brothers in Exile -- excerpt 4","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":[862,855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-i","category-ssf","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2qs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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