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    My Dead Father's Signal
    My Dead Father's Signal
    My Dead Father's Signal
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    My Dead Father's Signal

    By Stefon Mears

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    Pluto, a happening place for news. Corporate infighting. Political strife. Fighting among the miners. And Ymirite, the discovery that would revolutionize space travel.

     

    Jason Neuhaus. Top reporter for Solar News Network, "the galaxy's news source." Flying his Cronkite-class news ship in Pluto's orbit, he picks up a signal…

     

    From his dead father.

     

    "My Dead Father's Signal" – a thrilling short story of science fiction space opera. If you like high tech and heroes with attitude, don't miss this one! From Stefon Mears, author of Stealing from Pirates and Fade to Gold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateJul 24, 2021
    ISBN9798201405373
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      I found my father’s boots orbiting Pluto.

      I was out there on a routine news hunt. Ever since the discovery of Ymirite – the heavy metal isotope that all the experts said would one day revolutionize space travel – Pluto’d been a pretty happening place. Three space stations in orbit. Mining domes on the surface. Infighting among the local corporations. Infighting in the blossoming political structure. Actual fighting among drunken miners. Always some kind of news to find on Pluto.

      Just the sort of place a reporter like me got to go on assignment every few months.

      Back then I wasn’t just Jason Neuhaus, I was Jason Neuhaus. Top field reporter for the Solar News Network. The Galaxy’s News Source. What a joke. Mind you, we humans did have eight settlements off of our home planet, but none of them were outside the heliosphere, so galaxy was a wee bit of an exaggeration. Especially since we’d already known about the Sarkaanan, a lizard-like spacefaring race, for the better part of a decade.

      Typical, really.

      Anyway, I was out there in the SNN3, which was the first of the Cronkite-class vessels: half-ship, half-camera. Just me, of course. The

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