Cosmic Tales 10: Upgrade

By Richard C. Parr

Giltek, a reptilian robotics engineer on the technical planet Ban Zaadan, receives an unwelcome visit from a man carrying a troublesome item.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard C. Parr
• Release date: Apr 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311595935

Richard C. Parr

Frequent traveller, artist, fitness enthusiast, musician, cook and writer. Lover of science-fiction and RPG games.

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COSMIC TALES 10: UPGRADE

By

Richard C. Parr

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Cosmic Tales 10: Upgrade

Copyright (C) 2015 by Richard C. Parr

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Giltek, standing at five feet tall with large features and a snapping tail, was an expert robotics engineer and a primary source for imported components, upgrade material and installations on Ban Zaadan. A long-term dweller on the planet, he stayed in an apartment overlooking the marketplace of a steel structured city. Buildings stood and hung like stalactites and stalagmites, wide at the edge and extremely narrow at the summit, with some airborne, defying gravity and dangling like rustic needles, sporting thousands of windows shedding light onto an endless bustling metropolis. There were more robots than beings walking the avenues. It was a gigantic display of technological proficiency and a scrap yard of walking cogs and joints. Little beetle bots delivered packages to doors of businesses, and inside