Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Solitary Man
    Solitary Man
    Solitary Man
    Ebook48 pages27 minutes

    Solitary Man

    By Russ Crossley

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    When Uno Kellogg, corporate explorer, is awakened by his AI after the starship Destiny arrives at Pegasi IV Uno and the AI begin the greatest adventure in human history. Pegasi IV contains life -- intelligent life.

    But it's a one way trip for Kellogg and the AI has evolved beyond it's programming.Will the mission succeed?

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateSep 16, 2017
    ISBN9781386872870
    Solitary Man
    Author

    Russ Crossley

    International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

    Read more from Russ Crossley

    Related to Solitary Man

    Related ebooks

    Short Stories For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Extraterrestrial

      Dec 1, 2019

      Extraterrestrial
      7 min read

    • Article

      Too Much Space

      Mar 17, 2021

      Too Much Space
      5 min read

    • Article

      Should We Look For Aliens?

      Jul 21, 2021

      Should We Look For Aliens?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Hunt For The Multiverse

      Dec 5, 2019

      Hunt For The Multiverse
      7 min read

    • Article

      Letter Of The Month

      Mar 19, 2020

      Letter Of The Month
      4 min read

    • Article

      ASK Space

      Jun 20, 2019

      ASK Space
      8 min read

    • Article

      Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial?: Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.

      Sep 4, 2014

      Imagine that you’ve lived your entire life in a small village deep within a continental wilderness. For centuries this community has been isolated from the rest of the world. One day you go out exploring, skirting the edges of known territory. Sudden

      6 min read

    • Article

      Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial?

      May 11, 2017

      Imagine that you’ve lived your entire life in a small village deep within a continental wilderness. For centuries this community has been isolated from the rest of the world. One day you go out exploring, skirting the edges of known territory. Sudden

      6 min read

    • Article

      Where Is Everybody?

      Mar 21, 2024

      Where Is Everybody?
      8 min read

    • Article

      Wowing The Crowd

      Sep 6, 2021

      Wowing The Crowd
      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic: If life off Earth exists it has probably transitioned to machine intelligence.

      Oct 22, 2015

      This September, a team of astronomers noticed that the light from a distant star is flickering in a highly irregular pattern.1 They considered the possibility that comets, debris, and impacts could account for their observations, but each of these ex

      5 min read

    • Article

      Statistically a Miracle

      Mar 22, 2019

      Statistically a Miracle
      5 min read

    • Article

      Interactive

      Aug 11, 2022

      Interactive
      4 min read

    • Article

      Do We Share DNA with ET?

      Jan 16, 2020

      The primary difficulty of interstellar communication is finding common ground between ourselves and other intelligent entities about which we can know nothing with absolute certainty. This common ground would be the basis for a universal language tha

      7 min read

    • Article

      Ark Life

      Feb 22, 2023

      Ark Life
      6 min read

    • Article

      What Are the Odds of Alien Contact?

      Jan 16, 2020

      The only intelligent life forms we know of reside here on Earth. But that hasn’t stopped us from trying to answer the question: “Are we alone?” The search for extraterrestrial intelligence now has an accepted acronym, SETI, and a growing number of in

      10 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 16, 2023

      SHUTTLE HISTORY Tom Jones Smithsonian Books £33 • HB Adventure stories are best told by those who lived them. Here, astronaut Tom Jones offers an off-piste look at the 135 Shuttle flights between April 1981 and July 2011. Jones flew four times on the

      5 min read

    • Article

      First contact

      Oct 12, 2022

      First contact
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Octopus

      Oct 30, 2020

      The Octopus
      4 min read

    • Article

      Gaia Will Soon Belong to the Cyborgs

      Mar 5, 2020

      Our reign as sole understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to an end. We should not be afraid of this. The revolution that has just begun may be understood as a continuation of the process whereby the Earth nurtures the understanders, the beings

      7 min read

    • Article

      Butterfly Effect On Steroids

      Jan 20, 2024

      Butterfly Effect On Steroids
      2 min read

    • Article

      Think Different

      Jul 5, 2022

      Think Different
      7 min read

    • Article

      (Don’t) Fly Me to the Moon

      Mar 1, 2024

      (Don’t) Fly Me to the Moon
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Solitary Man

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Solitary Man - Russ Crossley

      Solitary Man

      Solitary

      Man

      Russ Crossley

      53rd Street Publishing

      Solitary

      Man

      Russ Crossley

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2014 Russ Crossley

      All rights reserved

      Cover art © Philcold | Dreamstime.com

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout copyright 2015 by 53rd Street Publishing

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdstreetpublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

      Contents

      Solitary Man

      About the Author

      Also by Russ Crossley

      Also available from 53rd Street Publishing

      Solitary

      Man

      K ellogg ?

      Yes, Apple?

      "Do you think we'll

      be

      safe

      ?"

      "

      Define

      safe

      ."

      I sense the uncertainty in his tone, but his heart rate remains constant, his blood pressure and breathing rate are both steady so I'm not convinced he's nervous. Sure he's the Destiny's crew and I'm just the AI, but we are alone orbiting Pegasi IV, a planet no human has ever visited. His job is to be confident if not for my benefit, the mission's certainly. Me, I'm a bundle of nervous microcircuits.

      We're 50.9 light years from Earth and we're alone. If anything goes wrong there will be no rescue and it will be my fault. I'm in charge. Responsibility this huge can be tough especially when you don't have a real body, complete with broad shoulders, where the responsibility can rest. (I'm partial to human colloquialisms. I've spent the past 100 years studying them, and if I do say so myself I'm getting rather good at using them. My job is to be the learning machine for the mission in addition to its commander.)

      The alarm klaxon sounded the moment Destiny crossed the boundary and entered the target solar system. We've been scanned setting off the internal security system. Lights unlit for a century blink on around the vessel. Bridge systems designed to monitor all onboard functions, and com screens for ship wide and external communications flicker to life creating a soft green glow across the surface of the command deck. The internal air purification and heating scrubbers set to work clearing and warming the frigid steel of the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1