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    Never See the Night
    Never See the Night
    Never See the Night
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    Never See the Night

    By Matthew Howard

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    An interplanetary biologist locks himself in a fortified research lab with an alien octopus, stranding his teammates outside in the path of a ferocious hurricane on a water-covered world. The animal already killed one of them, and the scientist-commandos must get inside to confront it, or die in the storm. But the octopus has plans of its own, because it just discovered a new species, too: humans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Howard
    Release dateJul 10, 2017
    ISBN9781370215706
    Never See the Night
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    Matthew Howard

    Matthew is a mammalian vertebrate who occupies spacetime, where he possesses mass and generates electromagnetic fields. He absorbs and reflects photons, and is currently recycling his own body weight in adenosine triphosphate every day.

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      Book preview

      Never See the Night - Matthew Howard

      NEVER SEE THE NIGHT

      BY MATTHEW HOWARD

      PUMA CONCOLOR AETERNUS PRESS

      2017

      Never See the Night.

      © 2017 by Matthew Howard. All Rights Reserved.

      Smashwords Ebook Edition ISBN: 9781370215706

      Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781548195021

      An interplanetary biologist locks himself in a fortified research lab with an alien octopus, stranding his teammates outside in the path of a ferocious hurricane on a water-covered world. The animal already killed one of them, and the scientist-commandos must get inside to confront it, or die in the storm. But the octopus has plans of its own, because it just discovered a new species, too: humans.

      Contents

      NEVER SEE THE NIGHT

      FIVE POEMS

      Kalaratri

      Neptune

      Mars

      Mercury

      Jupiter

      Never See the Night

      We’re trapped on this rock until we can figure out how to get back in there. Lieutenant Aoto wiped saltwater spray from his faceplate. Waves splashed the rocky plateau from 500 meters below. A single human-made structure populated the planet labeled Gelnikov 14 on official charts—a fortified research lab Aoto and his two corporals could no longer enter.

      Aoto’s team was one of many exploring potentially habitable planets in the sector. Hundreds of scientist-commandos traveled in one carrier ship to a given sector, then dispersed into small units to examine as many worlds as possible. If any held special promise, researchers on less-promising worlds combined forces and worked together.

      But during preliminary explorations, each team was isolated. Signals took days to travel from planet to

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