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    Space Trip
    Space Trip
    Space Trip
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    Space Trip

    By Nelson Lynch

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    The ship wakes Charlie up after only ten years of a hundred year trip. His cooling unit is broken and unfixable. The ship's computer decides that Charlie is using food and energy at an alarming rate. It declares Charlie excess baggage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNelson Lynch
    Release dateJun 28, 2011
    ISBN9781465909145
    Space Trip
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    Nelson Lynch

    An Eastern Shore native. A charter member of "The First Saturday Writers." An army vet and retired school teacher. He lives on his farm with his wife Jeanne, Clyde, the Taylorville Hound, three chickens and a marauding fox.

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      Space Trip - Nelson Lynch

      Space Trip

      Nelson Lynch

      Published by Hogskull Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011

      ISBN 978-1-4659-0914-5

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      Cover: Microsoft Clip Art

      Charlie looked down into the first cooling unit. Too tall. During the last five of the fifteen days that had elapsed since the ship had awakened him, he had developed the habit of talking to himself. It had taken him only 10 days of no-hurry labor to do all the minor maintenance the space ship required. When he returned to his cooling unit to go back into deep cooling for the rest of the voyage, the computer kept saying his unit was unusable at the present. It would be fixed in ten days.

      Why did the computer wake me? There are other maintenance technicians in the cooling units. At least there were when we left earth ten years ago. He looked down into the second cooling

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