Replica: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #6

By Craig A. Falconer

When one door closes, another world opens...

It wasn't supposed to go like this.

The mission was simple.

I took every precaution. I had done it a thousand times before.


But this time was different.

This time is different. This time, something went wrong.

I've called for help, but no one hears.


I'll admit it: I don't know how to get home.

Hell, I don't even know where I am.

And worst of all... wherever I am, I don't think I'm alone.


What have I done?

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Replica is the latest in an exciting line of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223084808

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Replica

REPLICA

CRAIG A. FALCONER

Replica

© 2021 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Contents

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Whence They Came

Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

~ Contact Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

TERRADOX SERIES

Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

~ Worlds Away collection ~

~ Terradox Quadrilogy box set ~

CYBER SEED SERIES

Sycamore

Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

SCI-FI SIZZLERS

Wanderlust

Bound For Glory

Sunset Stays

Arise With Us

Whence They Came

Replica

Megaton Murphy

A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

Happy, Inc.

Pamela 2.0

Funscreen

Pumpkin Splice

When Santa Slays

~ Chasing Tomorrows 15-Book Box Set ~

Seedling

Empty Nesters

A Savage In The Future

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For greed all nature is too little.

Seneca

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This day will go down in history.

Of course, no one is going to know about everything we’re doing up here, but the scientific breakthrough I announce publicly in a few hours will be enough to change the world forever.

The nature of my return to Earth will grab everyone’s focus, and the quantum leap in technology it showcases will blow their minds. I’m sure they’ll think it’s some kind of trick at first, at least until I start talking about the true power of what my team has unlocked.

From then, they’ll be speechless.

I can picture the headlines now, even bigger and bolder than when I leaked out some info about my plans for buying this station in the first place.

LENNY DELIVERS ON TELEPORTATION, they’ll say.

POWER, PRESTIGE, POSSIBILITY… LENNY’S 3-P CHANGES THE GAME.

Okay, the second one is a stretch. I’ve not totally given up on trying to get the world to think of it as 3-P technology — precise portal-portation — but the word teleportation is so deeply rooted in people’s minds that it does feel like a losing battle.

But the real battle is much bigger than that.

It doesn’t matter what anyone calls it… we’re doing it.

The portal technology is real and it’s ready for prime time. The only reason we haven’t shown it off yet is that our quest for 3-P — hell, okay, I’ll just call