Ameizan

By Eduard Meinema

A boy’s dream. And apparently a girl’s dream too. Travelling into space to be the first to explore new worlds. When scientists find mysterious rings around a new discovered star and intercept communication; it is a given fact. These are the first true signs of intelligent life. A discovery of unknown alien life offering many talented people the chance of a lifetime. Go wide young man! But be prepared; things may go wrong. Murphy that!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eduard Meinema
• Release date: Jun 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310829109

Eduard Meinema

"I love writing into the dark; like to be surprised by the characters scavenging through my own stories. Just before things are getting familiar; when I think, or at least believe, to know where a new story is going to, I give it a twist and make my readers (and myself) wonder... how the hell is this going to end?"WORDS and VISIONEduard Meinema is writer and visual artist. He writes in an exciting and humorous style. Creates intense, passionate and mysterious stories filled with unexpected twists which will seduce anyone to finish reading at full speed. Beside his full length novels, Eduard is fond of writing Flash Fiction and Short Stories. All of these 'Twisted Tales' are published as stand alone eBooks in the series 'Flash & Shorts'.Meinema's works of art include so called 'lyric abstract' paintings. Expressionistic works made of Acrylics and Sand. But also Pop-art, including characters known as 'Skredches' (Yes! There is a blog:check out the official site to find blog feeds!!) and...fish paintings. As Meinema says: "Ah! I love fish. Love to see them. Love to keep them. Breed them, paint them, eat them... (ouch, sorry for that...). Oh yeah, I love fish in each and every way."Meinema, born 1963 (Delft, The Netherlands) is former CEO of a temp office, specialized in contracting technicians. Together with his wife he has managed a gallery for contemporary art and jewelry for more than ten years. Nowadays Meinema is fulltime writer and visual artist.

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Eduard Meinema

Ameizan

First published by www.transfiction.nl 2016

Copyright © 2016 by Eduard Meinema

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Chapter 14

About the Author

Chapter 1

Damned recruiters. Chance of a lifetime they said. Be the next great explorer; a regular Columbus. The new Cook. Who wasn’t willing to go? Earth was not the best place to live by a long time. Rents were high; food was bad and morals deplorable. Go wide young man, the government stated. Go into the wide-open space; explore the universe.

Marketing; that’s what it was. Ordinary marketing to persuade young people to sign in on the new established space programme. Of course you would have all the time in the world to study. All the time in the universe actually. Not much else to do during the journey of seventeen years. Go wide. Sure; plenty of room in the never ending continuum called universe. Yet, nobody knew where to go. Go wide? Go where?

You will even meet the love of your life they promised. A highly skilled, specialized team of professionals had used all available scientific knowledge and refined techniques to make the perfect match for all of the twenty-one crew-members. The unequal number was chosen on purpose. Soon the ever growing distance between Earth Command and the space vessel would become problematic for regular communication. Situations in which any delay in communication could be fatal were expected and were certainly going to happen. For nobody knew what was waiting out there in the wide open space. But everyone knew disastrous situations in which quick communication would be necessary would occur. Mister Murphy was the first one to pack his bag and travel along with humanity into the ever expanding universe. Quick decisions were going to be necessary. Unpopular life saving decisions for which fifty-fifty deals were non negotiable. An uneven number of crew members was not the best choice. It was the least worse.

Well; relations did flourish, but not the ones the scientists had foreseen. Only two people expected to fall