No Cry For Help

By Simon J. Cooper

When Professor Cree Caarlso receives a desperate call from an old friend, he finds himself the only one who can help. No Cry For Help is a whodunit set on an alien world where a humanoid species have developed from a dolphin like ancestor.

This is the first story in the Alien Science Fiction series by Simon J. Cooper, a series taking an alien perspective.

Opening:

The house system bleeped, waking Professor Cree Caarlso from a generous snooze on his office chair. The working day ended two hours ago, so he let it go to message, he could reply if there was anything urgent. In Caarlso's experience, one cetecan's definition of urgent was very different to another's.

There was the sound of laboured breathing, and then a whisper. "Cree... are you there, Cree?"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Holbrook Publishing
• Release date: Dec 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465901118

Simon J. Cooper

Simon J. Cooper grew up on a farm in rural Donegal, Ireland, and spent his time avoiding farm work, digging for dragon skulls, and daydreaming about the kind of characters and worlds he now turns into stories. When his family moved to England, Simon fell in love with County Derbyshire, (you should go there,) and ale! It was there, at age eighteen, that he embarked on a quest for the meaning of life. This led to becoming down and out in both London and Paris, and three years philosophising in Lancashire, and a lot of other unprintable stuff, great and awful. Finally, he found an answer, his own at any rate, and got lucky, and married, in Northern Ireland, which is where he lives now with his wife, two children and a dragon – sorry, dog.

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