Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story
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Sometimes the elderly can make a real difference when given a chance. Captain Brian Saber must recruit a ninety-one-year-old discredited scientist to help save all of humanity from a deadly attack by aliens deep in space. Science fiction with a human touch.
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith has writer of over a hundred novels and at least that many short stories. He has written thrillers, fantasy, and science fiction, including many Star Trek novels for Pocket Books and the only two original Men in Black novels for Bantam Books. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch he wrote the acclaimed 10th Planet series for Del Rey books.
He has published a number of other Captain Brian Saber stories and will be coming out with a collection of the Saber stories later in 2011.
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Dean Wesley Smith
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names. He has written books and comics for Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse, as well as scripts for Hollywood. Over his career, he also worked as an editor and publisher for Pulphouse Publishing and Pocket Books. Currently, he writes thrillers and mysteries under one of his many pseudonyms.
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Hand and Space - Dean Wesley Smith
Hand and Space
A Captain Brian Saber Story
Dean Wesley Smith
Hand and Space
Copyright © 2012 by Dean Wesley Smith
Published by WMG Publishing
Cover Design copyright © 2012 WMG Publishing
Cover art copyright © Luca Oleastri/Dreamstime
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Chapter One
Dot was feeding me my applesauce one spoonful at a time when I saw him.
Around us, the Shady Valley Nursing Home went on with its normal lunch routine, but today was going to be anything but normal. In fact, the survival of the human race might depend on what happened next.
Dot and I had a signal for when I wanted her to stop, so I blinked my right eye and she instantly pulled back, taking a napkin and wiping the drool from my chin.
Being eighty-eight was bad enough, but being mostly paralyzed from a stroke really sucked more than I could ever say. Thankfully Dorothy Dot
Leeds made it bearable.
She was my best friend and fiancé. Down the road a few years we might even get married, settle down, have a few kids.
The stroke when I was eighty-five had taken most of my movement, but not my mind, and I could still speak softly. I blinked twice and Dot learned in close, her wonderful, eighty-seven-year-old face still showing the signs of the beautiful younger woman I knew so well.
What is it, Brian?
she asked. She turned her ear slightly so she could hear me over the noise of the lunchroom.
"Doctor Jack Dalton, sitting at