The Robotoid Spy

By Claude Joseph

Jessica Trellis is left baffled by the disappearance of a spy plane and the release of parachutes over the world's oceans. With the help of the trusty Robotoid Spy she is determined to uncover what plans the Gliesans have hatched. Meanwhile, the alien presence is unfurling and before long widespread disruption ensues.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Apr 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493136841

Claude Joseph

Claude Joseph studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales. He then started his career as an engineer in the Overseas Telecommunications Commission in the satellite and data engineering branch. Later he studied Food Business Management at Monash University. More recently he project managed major power system upgrades and portal development projects at Woolworths. Claude is married with two daughters in university and lives on the NSW Central Coast on the Bouddi National Park peninsula. His interests are in astronomy, the environment and playing tennis.

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THE

ROBOTOID SPY

Claude Joseph

Copyright © 2014 by Claude Joseph.

Cover Illustrations Copyright © 2014 by Claude Joseph.

Library of Congress Control Number:     2014905042

ISBN:                  Hardcover                        978-1-4931-3682-7

                            Softcover                          978-1-4931-3683-4

                            eBook                               978-1-4931-3684-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1—Western Atlantic, 2157

Chapter 2—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 3—Washington DC, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 4—Outer Space, 2157

Chapter 5—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 6—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 7—Washington DC, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 8—Gliese 581 System, 2157

Chapter 9—Gliese 581 System, 2157

Chapter 10—Bermuda Triangle, 2157

Chapter 11—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 12—Gliese 581 System, 2157

Chapter 13—Albuquerque, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 14—Florida, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 15—Gliese 581 System, 2157

Chapter 16—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 17—Bermuda Triangle, 2157

Chapter 18—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 19—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 20—Washington DC, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 21—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 22—Florida, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 23—Bermuda Triangle, 2157

Chapter 24—Gliese 581 System, 2157

Chapter 25—Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

Chapter 26—Florida, United States of America, 2157

Chapter 27—Washington DC, United States of America, 2157

Enjoy these earlier books from the same series

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Dedication

To my wonderful wife Valentina.

CHAPTER 1

Western Atlantic, 2157

The sun emblazoned the sky as a relentless wind blew the upper air. Distant objects materialised into the blue ether carried faster by a tailwind.

Three Gliesan spaceships were doggedly followed by a squadron of British jets after they had raided the World Seed Bank in West Sussex. The jets cut the air like thunder. The alien spaceship pilots, however, were monitoring another object on their screen. Absorbed in locating it, they only showed fleeting annoyance at the jets on their tail.

Two of the spaceships suddenly deployed an attached rocket which shot them up to a higher altitude. This tactic was successful in shaking off their pursuers. The British jet pilots were bewildered, but continued chasing the third, until they were out of range and had to return to their Lakenheath base, handing over the chase of the third spaceship to the Americans.

Free of the British jets, the two Gliesan spaceships returned to their task. They closed in on the object they were after, a Chinese surveillance plane that was quietly monitoring the American mainland.

In the cockpit, the Chinese pilots noticed all their meter needles behaving erratically. They felt the plane being pulled, and when they found their controls were ineffective against the unknown force, they made a decision to eject.

One of the Gliesan spaceships was using a tractor beam to pull it in. The indomitable force pulled the spy plane in as its hatch split open to take it.

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Flying high above the world’s oceans and keeping away from any presence of humans, whether in the air or on the sea, the two alien spaceships released 4,000 sea-blue parachutes. Having fulfilled all their objectives, the spaceships commenced the long journey back to their planet, Gliese 581 g.

CHAPTER 2

Cape Paterson, Australia, 2157

After all the trouble the Gliesans caused, Jessica Trellis was relieved that they had left, what with branding the Earth with their flag and attempting to steal the World Seed Bank. It had been a surreal experience watching the green-finned aliens step back onto their spaceship and blast off, hopefully for good.

Jessica retreated from the encounter to the Cape Paterson farmhouse where her father based his dinosaur fossil operation and slumped down on the couch. She undid the pins on her long brown hair letting it free fall down her back and flicked off the sneakers she normally wore when fossil seeking in the intertidal zone.

She now craved for normality, but one of those green-finned aliens, Glot, had left a recording of himself on her broadvision set when he was playing with the buttons. So to Jessica’s surprise, when she turned on her broadvision set to watch an episode of ‘How to train your robot,’ she instead saw Glot on the screen. ‘What on Earth is he doing here?’ thought Jessica.

Jessica stared at the screen as Glot ranted on in his alien tongue. She only understood one word—her name; it might be a message for her. She pulled out her computer and accessed the InfoZone bringing up the alien language translator she had used once before. After positioning her webcam to face her broadvision set, she played Glot’s recording to it. It sounded slurred and slippery like it was spoken in water. When it finished, her computer screen displayed the same video with a similar voice but translated to English.

‘I make a fine screen test,’ said Glot admiring himself, as at the time he was recording himself, watching himself on the broadvision screen was like looking into a mirror.

‘Jessica, is that what you like to be called? Don’t ever lock me in your laundry again with your whirring washing machine. In all my 300 years, nobody has ever done that to me,’ said Glot, wagging his finger up and down at her.

‘Besides, you have a leakage in your laundry that needs attending to,’ continued Glot.

Glot then gazed piercingly at her.

‘By now, with the help of our tractor beam, my buddies will have the means to eavesdrop on your Earthling activities just as your kind does on their fellow nations. So you will be unable to keep your little secrets from us or move without us knowing. We…’ The recording abruptly stopped.

Jessica thought, ‘Three hundred years! They live for three hundred years! And what have they done with their tractor beam?’ She gulped, her throat suddenly tight. Her thoughts turned to home. ‘I have a leakage in my laundry? An alien tells me this?’

The washing machine had been in the house for as long