Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook418 pages4 hours
Battle for the Stonehenge Beacon
By Steve Hailes
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Before breaking his lunar orbit, Snell reviewed his mission instructions:
1. Locate the lost Observer ship and salvage or destroy it.
2. Destroy any Syssphinx attempt to communicate with its home base. If possible, discover details about the Syssphinx race.
3. Find and communicate with the Lorelei.
The first directive would be simple.
As for the second one, either the Dark ship was destroyed or if not, so he had almost no chance to complete the directive. The Dark ships and their Syssphinx crews were the sworn enemies of all other life forms in the universe. No one really understood their avowed goal to extermination all life. Repeated negotiations had failed miserably. The second part of this directive was interesting. Behind its words, it demonstrated the Observers insatiable curiosity to know and to learn.
The third directive was the most exciting, but probably not possible.
When seen, descriptions of the Lorelei were always different, fantastic and contradictory. A Lorelei could be gaseous, liquid or solid, at will. It could be huge. Or small. It was intelligent. Or primal. It could communicate. Or it was pure life force. Even the Observers didnt know, and they knew everything.
Snell smiled. Observers could not be omniscience and without knowledge at the same time. His elders lack of knowledge about either the Syssphinx or the Lorelei both amused and fascinated him.
With determination, he activated his thrusters, broke orbit, and slipped toward the planet below.
He did not understand just how difficult fulfilling any the directives would be.
1. Locate the lost Observer ship and salvage or destroy it.
2. Destroy any Syssphinx attempt to communicate with its home base. If possible, discover details about the Syssphinx race.
3. Find and communicate with the Lorelei.
The first directive would be simple.
As for the second one, either the Dark ship was destroyed or if not, so he had almost no chance to complete the directive. The Dark ships and their Syssphinx crews were the sworn enemies of all other life forms in the universe. No one really understood their avowed goal to extermination all life. Repeated negotiations had failed miserably. The second part of this directive was interesting. Behind its words, it demonstrated the Observers insatiable curiosity to know and to learn.
The third directive was the most exciting, but probably not possible.
When seen, descriptions of the Lorelei were always different, fantastic and contradictory. A Lorelei could be gaseous, liquid or solid, at will. It could be huge. Or small. It was intelligent. Or primal. It could communicate. Or it was pure life force. Even the Observers didnt know, and they knew everything.
Snell smiled. Observers could not be omniscience and without knowledge at the same time. His elders lack of knowledge about either the Syssphinx or the Lorelei both amused and fascinated him.
With determination, he activated his thrusters, broke orbit, and slipped toward the planet below.
He did not understand just how difficult fulfilling any the directives would be.
Author
Steve Hailes
Mr. Hailes began writing in a high school Plane Geometry class where he wrote his first science fiction novel. His writing took a back seat for the next twenty years as he got married, graduated in English from the University of Utah, worked on a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature, became a salesman and then sales manager for Highlights for Children, managed a twenty-story medical building in Minneapolis, and finally came to California as a technical writer. Mr. Hailes lives south of Silicon Valley in San Jose, California about five miles from the historic Quicksilver County Park, the site of a gun battle in his western adventure novel, The Quicksilver Kid. For the last fourteen years, he has been writing technical manuals and training materials for companies such as IBM, Claris, Hewlett-Packard, and 3Com. He has written books with titles like TokenLink III 16-bit Micro Channel Adapter Guide, LANALert Network Management System User’s Manual, and Integrated Circuit Measurement System (IC-MS) User’s Manual. He also writes Windows Help Systems. These works, along with their hardware and software, have been purchased by millions of people.
Read more from Steve Hailes
The Vengeance Trail The Quicksilver Kid: A Gold Rush Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Battle for the Stonehenge Beacon
Related ebooks
Circle of Stones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPosteagenesis: The Further Adventures of Joe Shaw through Space and Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEmpyrean Ruin: Houses Align Book 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed Star (The Triple Stars, Volume 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChaos: Histories of Purga, #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoxland Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5John Calleghan & The PSI Pirates: John Calleghan, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNEWTH (The Early Years) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Darkest Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDivinity: Realm of Annihilation: Book Four Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrankie Williams Goes Balistic: Crankie Williams Goes To War, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurvivors of the Realm: Thunder Stone Realm Book 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrankie Williams Goes Ballistic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Queen Her Beast and the Creature: An Unusual Love Affair Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConvergence: The Balance Wars, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFallen Meteor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle for Atlanta (When the World Ended and We Were Invaded: Season 2, Episode #8) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNever By Blood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFarscape: Dark Side of the Sun Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The CW Chronicles: "Sinners" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEcho Between Worlds: The Echo, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSuperluminal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Liminal Hearts (Rules of Chaos Book 1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Davidia's Seed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChronicles of New Earth 1 Bringer of Doom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making of Incarnation: A Reader's Companion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurrender the Dark Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Equations: The Body Electric: Book Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cousin Entropy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Science Fiction For You
Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blindsight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: Secret Projects, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rendezvous with Rama Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Light From Uncommon Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oona Out of Order: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Firestarter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Time and Again Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Sangfielle 42: Two Kinds of Quarry Pt. 1 0% found this document usefulTotal Solar Eclipse Dec 4 2021. Weirdly Cosmic MASSIVE change of MIND! 0% found this document usefulRemembering Atlantis & Lemuria's Final Days and their Ancient Extraterrestrial Origins 100% found this document usefulAn animal in denial: A conversation with Melanie Challenger 0% found this document usefulSteven Kotler: The Devil's Dictionary | 292 0% found this document usefulInvasion of the Baby Snatchers: Extraterrestrials: Invasions 0% found this document usefulCultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads 0% found this document useful#1 Dead Planets Society: Kill The Sun 0% found this document usefulWho Were The ELOHIM: Return Of The gods SOON?! 0% found this document usefulThe Aliens by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets Literary HubArticle
Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets
Dec 13, 2019
9 min readThe Most Beautiful Science of the Year NautilusArticle
The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
Dec 28, 2022
11 min readThe Power To Endure New PhilosopherArticle
The Power To Endure
Apr 19, 2021
5 min readThe Most Beautiful Science of the Year NautilusArticle
The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
Dec 22, 2023
As editors our eyes are glued to the page all day, focused on one story, sometimes one tricky passage, and often, when it comes to writing headlines, one word! It’s amazing to look up at the end of the year and see what we’ve produced. We are so happ
7 min readA Symposium On The Mysterious The Threepenny ReviewArticle
A Symposium On The Mysterious
Sep 1, 2023
24 min readIn Search Of . . . Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young TeensArticle
In Search Of . . .
Feb 1, 2019
7 min readAssemblage Creative NonfictionArticle
Assemblage
Mar 27, 2018
TO MAKE HISTORY, gather together a poet and his lover and her stepsister, another poet and his doctor. Send them to the mountains in summertime but have the weather betray them, turn cold and wet, keep them inside near a roaring fire. Provide a book
5 min readEmbrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror Literary HubArticle
Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror
Jun 8, 2017
9 min readVoyager Orion MagazineArticle
Voyager
Nov 27, 2023
7 min readDrake’s Scorpion, As Explained By An Astrologer And An Entomologist The AtlanticArticle
Drake’s Scorpion, As Explained By An Astrologer And An Entomologist
Jul 3, 2018
5 min read‘Frankenstein’ And The Science Of Transitioning The MillionsArticle
‘Frankenstein’ And The Science Of Transitioning
Apr 25, 2018
Victor Frankenstein stands listening to his creation, the creature who he brought to life from the sewed-together remnants of the dead, who he abandoned at the height of his success, and who now asks his father to remedy his rejection buy building hi
6 min readWhy We Hunt For Alien Life The Saturday Evening PostArticle
Why We Hunt For Alien Life
Nov 1, 2023
4 min readOur Most Effective Weapon Is Imagination NautilusArticle
Our Most Effective Weapon Is Imagination
Apr 28, 2021
In his Theaetetus, Plato remarks to Socrates: “This pathos is proper to the philosopher: It is the thaumazein. And philosophy has no other point of departure than this.” The word, which contains the root thauma, the same that appears in thaumaturgy,
9 min readButterfly Effect On Steroids Independent on SaturdayArticle
Butterfly Effect On Steroids
Jan 20, 2024
2 min readSlaying Monsters in Fiction The MillionsArticle
Slaying Monsters in Fiction
Jan 23, 2018
When a monstrous beast appears in a story, then it becomes, at least in part, what that story is about. The post Slaying Monsters in Fiction appeared first on The Millions.
6 min readA Language Beyond Reason Dumbo FeatherArticle
A Language Beyond Reason
Feb 27, 2020
I grew up in a scientific family. My grandmother Irene was the daughter of the physicist Max Born, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum mechanics and was a close friend of Albert Einstein. She was herself scientifically well educated and h
4 min readLife Hacking Life: The Scary Premise Of 'Annihilation' NPRArticle
Life Hacking Life: The Scary Premise Of 'Annihilation'
Mar 7, 2018
4 min readThe Seven Absent Sins After Dinner Conversation: PhilosophyArticle
The Seven Absent Sins
Apr 10, 2022
The compiled knowledge of the 89 species in the Galactic Confederation of Intelligences has never been a priority for earthbound scholars. Our collective ignorance has metastasized ever since the Declaration of Terran Egress, which has now kept us in
12 min readRemastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys NPRArticle
Remastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys
May 4, 2017
When Ruthanna Emrys first read H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," her sympathies were squarely with the monsters — and that sympathy was the seed of her new book, Winter Tide.
5 min readAlien Clay SFXArticle
Alien Clay
Mar 20, 2024
2 min readThe Age of the Entangled Self Orion MagazineArticle
The Age of the Entangled Self
May 27, 2022
3 min readExtraterrestrial The Threepenny ReviewArticle
Extraterrestrial
Dec 1, 2019
7 min readCharlie Jane Anders on Space Colonization, Permanent Midnight, and Nuclear War Literary HubArticle
Charlie Jane Anders on Space Colonization, Permanent Midnight, and Nuclear War
Apr 12, 2019
3 min readA Book of Hours Orion MagazineArticle
A Book of Hours
Nov 25, 2022
12 min readLe Guin’s Subversive Imagination The Paris ReviewArticle
Le Guin’s Subversive Imagination
Nov 20, 2019
6 min readOn Frankenstein, A Monster of a Book The Paris ReviewArticle
On Frankenstein, A Monster of a Book
Jun 19, 2018
8 min readA Moby-Dick–Inspired Memoir of Menopause The AtlanticArticle
A Moby-Dick–Inspired Memoir of Menopause
Jun 18, 2019
7 min readNew To 3 Body Problem? Here’s What You Need To Know About The Netflix's Blockbuster Show Evening StandardArticle
New To 3 Body Problem? Here’s What You Need To Know About The Netflix's Blockbuster Show
Mar 18, 2024
4 min readTurning, Unfolding, Passing Through Guernica MagazineArticle
Turning, Unfolding, Passing Through
Nov 14, 2019
10 min readStranded: Alien Dawn PC GamerArticle
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Nov 10, 2022
2 min read
Reviews for Battle for the Stonehenge Beacon
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Battle for the Stonehenge Beacon - Steve Hailes
Na book_preview_excerpt.html u\ےq͎n(oHZi֡[h&G6IdՖ~Kdi{IH~yusyO^|n]zq.zI7~/77~%oӷcJnWyJ~ͯ3 O~
U}7mi.7̧fv).#n?ŏ>vϝG9gsH{YdK07tɳe"ޕ(+k$;tngGW^*v7w|w~w.r
q~O]X21:3yfwApSXHxmIgmwJduosmk'8t]V1H!#ĉ I .k}w 2v/7/Q J#dc'+}Dv>/%LyA1&au)u[pM:u[҆4_WC,Kqa=DM;.b(A+!>2`<{
u{ǵ+u"yw b/wBiMPmnA~% G7wİq R {D!&ܢ&m;`gQ Z;y3(ApogԵq̺ lGUS՛8+*zDMD8S22۠ !b-.ʆ̈2z !P$LH*SnI7*,h\{Idg$+@?d̤Lcs S<
i&w!Y$i `N]fq@ծ2 ̬ن8(#L/ݏȡ雮ǜB1@ΎJï(ֹ9ݽMb. :fSc,gg>''G} 嗒/N~NB&+Zhפ~58s CZtΚS%ǠTN o)pp hw<
hʞHaQ54 '6@Ûa&%߇H#PC_dtޱ;&hqvY_T K5
uicF٦Ys|~L}ʒkp ">߉~ ƝwtTz5T@ rMQ&䈙 qC9jД'`D 'hƧߗ}124ϚƟ3!] U.Q)~ @oy#" ̐$t@emQ+&HXITjE)
Kd@ b,ԃd 0eΰ8L]%r+3 \0> UEo(R8k4&O)i t<ݰ{ % ͩXqYbmd!: ? ݼ^$Aui
w#A2J-x
!eD[cϻP |zϓ?~Q. rzq.r 5
s#_)v =mPv$2ҡ k8"3(tGiD%ر R !*{@,'-hE`S˦tͯ0vEPv, 0D7);0^YgGs7pT8#l>d[G>T_w (@or3Q 4uM$_ \= B?N?tW~Ԛ`9Af gƥ}PaE.?8.7M$ejT^z3 lNø br X
Dz9_ 3֩o8x1!Z9sLTdp%v1.2O;eNcĸ+KHo%oB3Wl-^lwɊ/ HEj!;. ]lĔ䦌0(z P\wDEъr#K$)2 FA}VzwIt"ה`E%ȦR:3#_w,H(f1X0>%o/8$'~ 3\7p6e'+&s:u1md%B2,,۔tbHMM֚
v$Q#Ǡ$*nhaU*]
t@[Hͥ@%U4QoY$)n ? X˥BfttRL+@ v/EQ@|q
'LWSy|2|AI } ʚm>OsX_٪+Ǒ"Ei2 ͿY%>,(f,??$Ie 2 Ι1)] aOO! U>J^2_
MhwA4 NʜR. t>\2zl5z$0-3x
-Q
Jv~{m)j4N^;C
V9|L -y k\cQP! E0"6t^ߧ+?4o up"Z_,
!e!p٬)M cҪq.MǷɶ?y=ӻZ1Mkf'}E8 Z +qb?&'#5J}>:IdzUc 3(Kɢ=XYa =v)ԅ۶d@ʛvi
y# 9@ K->lf^dHωV`r`Jۮ97ufWTHY<-.N 6\k`d005vlu\qcsG@ÊP(K1Qk)
L%VBnD7P$p% -D$$\ VhWXV۔qi Z]OiVGѪ"4|7dQ\7uyV]@~s :5/cՃ[J2:Q&:(!
MuzJ㘗3t%hQS,t6\0ǔ/fwNT-7\l{p,oNN Qk% IXO c\AF9շz5+hm'Tr78>myXDm~l6jV}ou:A;R
rI̳TDW{2X/ /qX}*lP\ Q& GW@w_`.ˈ
aߋ=cF BQ(Wn2%<4oX%#K\lQBB1bGQK0pY7I?j/-N3X
Nb¬ָ i_ܩ*ýcFb09&`-h9{+JHĿmMs#o+ETD^-fTdË<..!W(K2)N֫; ֬Sqg>9k{NAEm$ cDV VV#;eI-~?J`w2't! fZ5ب&k#rӏYF nы1!>A/-^3A&?gGJWQ-KCE0"6>ʼLd\Oh_9S v˔8Zb$N8WfsSvr} P\dnJ/m1 #Mdv0@)щ(˧2,(t`Zt(p/Iv elj ;sY~ &ny19] wdq:\OI㙌ۻ2KЙy0@p3ΓtQjÉu husL+\#TE+u AG a~X~gζ#*̀T?^:;vBxHzAV̵ro_}gdxWq{ !N/N\[=jn ,xjPS'=6Q[8 $VO-GQ)w4庒 V*LAȊfQ^)W~@uz_:";djrq㏬kYԉM:%3,RW$0G1|ze-d+5ϓ;|i-͍V(
4▐} 69xtd5U"A}dM
JtQ%2 U8&]{oi) t L{fSmʼn\Ӄ謾xϵ|0#3R备T;Im{6Y X<=8E3J\TacU|qǀ{4d U4] > -ъe#B 43ڿCx/
eq̦℥_pڥ@$BCbؓ @QZL 0b93il+ h'mܣ7Īʭ:&&s5Ļc(=DB ~2LpOGD'u18irQRD7"PR)OCP&+UpL.G,F %x̒lXu'wy Vk:8r@V R@)fݶ9q] Q Zaٴ%mQuΥ! c b[ =&$ڵmw,1"
Ў ^uE랹,VW!D6b;-@P/ͥWǖM|)+{4 ٟ_)[+PpUp ftC y)jQ9Ъ-:NJXPr nAş0uv a)FAa48nW@> 3%̽J9a8/M. r[=k CpWق ]= ;3EL op$4酁}L&̤t):(9 ygeml ʧ^;o~yxb+SHq#P }9=X"V5VRݟ^[F@H 9?8ժ7 qL,A}s$,.k::apnCz(}xUȮm.4)RK^S!!TVɭ2$n aؾ\lF> V3hæe!J-X()SȿO(Q*B,'GlIl5KY\U98v%4-_řkr01>eJ}$ԯMS4;{,X[~1]ϝt$l~ >~-q#D /mkࣱb{ЋY6;]l
\6ΛOO_N YgN\,{j{Q aV o 7oJDՆ",ߗ+
Z8]g\4W>Jpgv["Զ;-MMWѬ]:p|#H5de (|ޥp4Iv 7~ZY 3ZJqPY&.AL* SFQ*BM [Ӄ~vWөrI|h#һtvw#h
v~ X\ \~ &/h?Θݚ`vn6mP;3Ù, Nmf!HH:T6F=^3w Q iw @y *wpD {)XFmVxT:`M~5!-1'PO=
q Lf %My҆mì$NCgۄT gx(`(>Ծ&JDӨ#q/T+BXz4 UJkv!w?ろ"= WI rz4#*W
ά%qG Z Lؓϙ2%9̫`H Y = 䭉jLS(;Իp '26A Q|2SI9rǛ6|%'*vd*'YY^_uGq;hܕYў,hx>lBX燨Hd*̇ y-H>352m&-=gؼvBѐxsȚg- b #:v=s6n$
dsK2$"q
[c6)x'A2]jΑr+Mi2=_?WjTDLȐxڒ 8=jŸkBޒ 1' QwiK"ۼDmosMѾEOI6k=-!.$Es5+U'*|اӸNwkUl3li'rE Ă9UJs 7]026A +J/t5\aל|lzdZb*
1v` Sk*.$<6| zz[RG 6zW
k*VGk!~#r
9/M fJC.lq]/1T+}XS= wX#p#a6^* Y* e ]*gU
rS3s`Ū)z5 2N%"ٻE,?nw}9iſ=:m('BY9^O ,='RGdGQ^v cLzy x s>a_x
Q B/}2Т1_4)Ӛo=G2a\eSoa~M:j%)r~9ˎ:U#i<"\-LwH3?!-E ^𥉉aAl1GG{0<;//3 jm
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1