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    Last Message from Titan Six
    Last Message from Titan Six
    Last Message from Titan Six
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    Last Message from Titan Six

    By Jackson Allen

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    Titan Six must be in trouble. A broken antenna? Impossible, they have backup systems to the backup systems. The closest satellites became our magnifying glasses, trained on the tiny spot on Titan, where our human brothers and sisters were supposed to be. Another round of arguments, back and forth, for another hour. By then, my eyes were fighting to stay open. That's when the nightmare really began.

     

    "Uh, sir?" a voice asked at my elbow. "A new message has arrived, from ... uh, from Titan." 

     

    Nothing we'd ever experienced prepared us for the gut-freezing chill of those three words blinking to life on our screen: aliens. help. now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackson Allen
    Release dateAug 15, 2021
    ISBN9798201778620
    Last Message from Titan Six
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    Jackson Allen

    Jackson Allen is a science fiction writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently working on his first sci-fi series. Learn more at www.inkican.com

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      Last Message from Titan Six - Jackson Allen

      Last Message from Titan Six

      Jackson Allen

      Published by Jackson Allen, 2021.

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      Last Message from Titan Six

      Also By Jackson Allen

      About the Author

      Last Message from Titan Six

      We all hoped it would never come to this.

      Decisions, discussions, even arguments, echoed through the halls of every conference center from Houston to the Cape, up to the Pentagon, Congress, and the Oval Office. The unthinkable had happened.

      In the seventy-two hours since the regular comms traffic came to a halt, all of our efforts were around a rescue mission. Titan Six must be in trouble. A broken antenna? Impossible, they have backup systems to the backup systems.

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