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    Finding the Future
    Finding the Future
    Finding the Future
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    Finding the Future

    By Graham Storrs

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    Finding the Future is a story about survival. In a distant future, a colony ship from Earth arrives at a far-away planet to find it is not the terraformed paradise they were expecting. In fact, their new home is just full of surprises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Storrs
    Release dateJan 25, 2013
    ISBN9780987186751
    Finding the Future
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    Graham Storrs

    Graham Storrs is a science fiction writer who lives miles from anywhere in rural Australia with his wife and a Tonkinese cat. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies as well as three children's science books and a large number of academic and technical pieces in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.He has published a number of sci-fi novels, in four series; Timesplash (three books), the Rik Sylver sci-fi thriller series (three books), the Canta Libre space opera trilogy. and the Deep Fracture trilogy. He has also published an augmented reality thriller, "Heaven is a Place on Earth", a sci-fi comedy novel, "Cargo Cult", a dark comedy time travel novel, "Time and Tyde", and an urban sci-fi thriller, "Mindrider."

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      Finding the Future - Graham Storrs

      Finding the Future

      by

      Graham Storrs

      FINDING THE FUTURE

      by Graham Storrs

      Copyright © 2013 by Graham Storrs.

      Published by Canta Libre at Smashwords.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

      ISBN: 978-0-9871867-5-1 

      Book design by Graham Storrs.

      Cover art by Graham Storrs. (Astute readers will recognise Charles Darwin's original tree of life sketch embedded in the cover art.)

      Dedication

      For my wife, Christine, and my daughter, Becky.

      Acknowledgements

      This story was first published in Scareship Magazine, Issue #7, edited by Richard Hollon.

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      Finding the Future

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      Finding the Future

      Hey Red, what's the news with the orbital insertion?

      The orang-utan looked around as he entered the rec room and saw Jerra lounging in a corner with his feet up. A cup of kif steamed in the man's hands. Red had rarely seen those hands without one.

      Every display in the room was showing details of the trajectory, with countdowns, telescopic views, and scrolling data feeds. What the human didn't already know about their imminent arrival at Walden, could easily be had by glancing around the room.

      Your life is the sharp spike at the centre of spreading, concentric waves, Red said. He pushed his spectacles farther up his stubby nose and turned to inspect the food printers. Jerra eyed him speculatively, noting a certain listlessness, an uncharacteristic droop in his friend's beefy shoulders.

      Come on, Red, don't get all poetical on me. Just gimme the facts.

      The printer pinged and the orang-utan removed his bowl of rambutan fruit. He sighed and went to join Jerra. "Our motion in space will bring us to intersect the motion of Walden within the hour. We will be caught and

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