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    Journey to the Stars
    Journey to the Stars
    Journey to the Stars
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    Journey to the Stars

    By Christopher McMaster

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    A man's dream of meeting the lights he has seen in the sky, of journeying with them, turns to nightmare when he finally gets what he wants ...

    An alien ethnographer collects death moments for his study. One Autumn morning he starts to show Chloe ...

    Fishing in the near future: New Zealand has one of the most sustainably managed fisheries in the world. What happens when those elsewhere fish their waters to depletion and start to head south?

    In the early days of NASA, they thought the vast emptiness and solitude would be too much for the human mind to handle. For this space trucker, maybe they were right ...

    Four stories from the popular anthology, described by the author as "A worrying glimpse inside my mind."

    With links to more stories and books by Christopher McMaster

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher McMaster
    Release dateJan 21, 2022
    ISBN9798201519636
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      Journey to the Stars - Christopher McMaster

      Journey to the Stars

      ––––––––

      Science Fiction Stories from the Bottom of the Ocean to the Depths of Space

      A man's dream of meeting the lights he has seen in the sky, of journeying with them, turns to nightmare when he finally gets what he wants ...

      An alien ethnographer collects death moments for his study. One Autumn morning he starts to show Chloe ...

      ––––––––

      Fishing in the near future: New Zealand has one of the most sustainably managed fisheries in the world. What happens when those elsewhere fish their waters to depletion and start to head south?

      ––––––––

      In the early days of NASA, they thought the vast emptiness and solitude would be too much for the human mind to handle. For this space trucker, maybe they were right ...

      ––––––––

      Four stories from the popular anthology, described by the author as A worrying glimpse inside my mind.

      ––––––––

      With links to more stories and books by Christopher McMaster

      Contents

      Journey to the Stars

      The Ethnographer’s Gift

      Bunk Mate

      QMS

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      A man’s dream of meeting the lights he has seen in the sky, of journeying with them, turns to nightmare when he finally gets what he wants ... 

      ––––––––

      Tom chased aliens like others chased storms. He chased them for the same reasons too. He met a group once, or rather, their paths crossed. Wild eyes and messy hair, they were more excited the closer they got to their storm. They obviously lived for it. He wasn’t all that different from them—he was just as excited, just as wild-eyed, just as crazed the closer he got. On that occasion, he watched them peel away as the storm continued to move. They didn’t understand why Tom didn’t follow as the storm tracked west, but he wasn’t interested in any terrestrial meteorological event. He was after what, or who, was hiding behind it. He knew something was there. 

      Just like the storm chasers followed their leads, Tom followed his. There were lots of leads to pick up on. Short wave radio was his favourite. It was awash in theorists, or conspiracists, and chasers like himself. And it was immediate. There was no delay in uploading files, no hours wasted in trolling websites or following endless paths with keywords for breadcrumbs. Tom prided himself in reading between the lines, in seeing relevant data in observations that the person on air didn’t even see. He was also adept at picking out the plants, the hoaxers, paid by the government or whoever, to redirect the gaze, to sow some confusion. There was that place in America, what they called ‘Area 51’. Now there was a conspiracy, just not the one a lot of people believed. Classic redirection. Simple, but effective. If you get people looking in one place,

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