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    Chariot to the Stars
    Chariot to the Stars
    Chariot to the Stars
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    Chariot to the Stars

    By Steve Miller

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    Chariot to the Stars features some of Steve Miller's favorite early work from Amazing Science Fiction and elsewhere. as well as a previously unpublished short story.

    The stories in Chariot to the Stars ask:

    *Who builds a chariot to the stars?
    *What if the fate of the world were in the paws of a pet?
    *Where do you find zero-gravity buckets and Christmas twice a year?
    *When is the best time to count the lines on the highway?
    *How can a spaceman survive the destruction of his ship 100 light-years from home?

    Why wait to find out? The answers are in
    Chariot to the Stars

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPinbeam Books
    Release dateJul 22, 2016
    ISBN9781935224662
    Chariot to the Stars
    Author

    Steve Miller

    Robert S. Miller, better known as Steve, served as chairman and CEO of Delphi Corporation. In addition, he serves on the boards of Symantec and United Airlines. He resides near Detroit, Michigan, with his wife, Jill.

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      Chariot to the Stars - Steve Miller

      Copyright Page

      Pinbeam Books

      http://www.pinbeambooks.com

      This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are fiction or are used fictitiously.

      Chariot to the Stars

      Copyright © 1997, 2011 by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author. Please remember that distributing an author's work without permission or payment is theft; and that the authors whose works sell best are those most likely to let us publish more of their works.

      First published in December 1997 by SRM, Publisher.

      The Inventoried first appeared in the August 20, 1976 edition of St. Toad's Journal

      Charioteer first appeared in the May 1978 edition of Amazing Science Fiction

      The Solution first appeared in the November 1978 edition of Amazing Science Fiction

      Rain Day first appeared in Owlflight No. 1, 1981

      ISBN:

      Kindle: 978-1-935224-66-2

      Epub: 978-1-935224-67-9

      PDF: 978-1-935224-68-6

      Published May 2011 by

      Pinbeam Books

      PO Box 1586

      Waterville ME 04903

      email info@pinbeambooks.com

      Cover Copyright © 2011 by Steve Miller

      Cover design by Steve Miller

      Rain Day

      Jeremy hid carefully in the tangled bushes of the park to avoid the revelry of Rain Day. Already soaked by three or four of the passing groups, and pursued at one point by his cousin Paco and his friends, Jeremy was in no mood to let it happen again—at least not without a fight. Besides, what a stupid idea, a whole day-long holiday to celebrate rain.

      Looking upward, Jeremy stared in wonder for a moment at the cities that arched together over his head, and the cloud that hung perpetually in the center of the man-made cylinder in space that was called Gerard. Huh. A dumb name, too.

      Gerard was the largest space colony ever built. It occupied an orbit between Earth and Mars and had been called man’s greatest engineering achievement. Jeremy had little enthusiasm for the worldlet that he'd moved to with his parents from a home in Ocean City, Maryland, no matter what people said about it. It was true that the cylinder, its interior lined with dirt built up from dust from the moon and asteroids, did have cleaner air and better water than he was used to at home, but what of it? Gerard didn't have any of his friends, and there was little chance that he would ever see his girlfriend Kathleen anymore. Heck, Kathleen hadn't even bothered to answer the last letter he'd sent her. Jeremy sighed sadly. Since he was more than twenty million miles away from Earth, he might as well forget Kathleen.

      Although his hiding place was comfortable enough, it was also boring—except for the view of the two other cities that made up the worldlet there was little to look at close up.

      The sounds of steps on the path made him settle back down onto the grass for a few more moments, and before he could decide to leave, there came the noise of running feet and laughing voices.

      She went this way, I bet, one voice yelled, and then another. The commotion quieted.

      Jeremy held his breath. He could hear a small rustling sound in the bushes, as if someone was pushing their way through. He knew what that meant. One of the kids with the squeeze bottles, or, even worse, one with a borrowed zero gravity bucket, was sneaking up on him.

      He wished that he'd known what this holiday was all about. He could have borrowed a zero gravity bucket from either of his parents, both of whom flew ferry craft between the main space colony of Gerard and the various government and private factories that were in the same

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