Stephen J Bannister

Tunnels of Kb-104 (Ruby's Abyss) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Federated Interplanetary Government has secretly sent Jacinta Watts and work colleague, good friend and captain of their spaceship Colin Pratt to a "Goldilocks" planet, Kb-104, which orbits a G-class star in the constellation of Pegasus. The planet has an anomaly their employers want investigated. They also want to know if there is an intelligent species on it.

Jacinta is highly qualified and experienced and is the right person to determine the nature of a planet but her first impressions indicate the planet is like most others, barren and lifeless, apart from the anomaly which sees the venting of very high temperatures into the atmosphere.

Her exploration of the planet she unofficially calls Ruby, reveals there was life on it at one time, but it died out sometime in the long distant past, until she finds tunnel entrances in cliffs.

Regulations require her to investigate such things if safe, so Jacinta enters a tunnel Colin has decreed safe. Although she suffers from claustrophobia, Jacinta has no fear as her technology will guide her and warn her of any dangers.

The first thing she notices is the tunnel is not natural, something engineered and manufactured it.

Without realising it, the tunnel takes Jacinta deeper underground as she collects samples of water and basic life forms until she finds a strange blue light. Stepping through the light she finds herself trapped, unable to get out of the tunnel and communicate with Colin who is hovering high above the planet surface. Her sensors are now almost useless to her.

After getting herself under control, Jacinta continues walking within a tunnel labyrinth she knows she can become hopelessly lost in. With fear gripping every step she suddenly finds herself in a different world, a mesmerising place of beauty and grandeur, a place she could only dream of or see in movies.

Grateful to be out of her confining tunnel, she enters a forest alive with many different insects and animals until, quite unexpectedly, she finds what she has been looking for, an intelligent species that may or may not be benevolent.

Unknown to Jacinta and Colin, the alien species has a task for the pair of them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stephen J Bannister
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230685166
• Artikelnr.: 73651952

Autorenporträt

Stephen. L. West was born in the UK but moved to South Australia in the mid-sixties growing up mainly in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. At seventeen he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy where he learnt his trade. Whilst still serving, he married Trudi in nineteen eighty. After a ten-year career he joined the New South Wales Fire Brigades before the family, now four with two children, decided to move back to South Australia.

His writing career started in the late nineteen-eighties creating technical manuals which soon led to looking further afield and dabbling in fiction. As an amateur astronomer with a lot of interest in other sciences, he decided to write his first science fiction novel.

'I had this thing going around and around inside my head so I decided one day to get it out of there and onto paper.'

Stephen and Trudi still live in South Australia, in the mid-north and are both involved with the Country Fire Service, Stephen as a firefighter and Trudi as a financial coordinator. Their family has expanded to six grandchildren (with more to come).