Welcome To The Galaxy: Or, How I Learned To Appreciate The Importance Of A Good Flocking

Nancy Wahl, a twenty-something school teacher, is killing time between making Life on The International Space Station videos when a badly damaged space ship materializes just outside the space station's observatory. The only sign of life is a scrolling display above an open hatch that repeats, "Welcome. Please come aboard." Quane, the sole occupant of the dilapidated spaceship, is a scheming junk dealer who makes a living duping yokels in the galactic backwaters into believing his battered engines are valuable museum pieces. He wears a hastily sewn dog costume to hide his identity because humans bear an uncanny resemble to Smez, a race of beings who attacked him for his real form on a planet on the other side of the galaxy. Earth's nations, as galactically gullible as they come, are so enamored with the possibility of owning the means to trek among the stars that they overlook the obvious decrepitude of the stardrive engine and overbid each other for sole possession of the alien technology. Miriam Wu, Chinese astro-biologist, and member of the space station crew when Quane arrived, leads the inaugural human expedition to the galaxy. Of course, the derelict engine breaks down shortly after departure and maroons the crew in a gravitational dimension known as Dark Space. The following events find Miriam and her crew on trial for murder, in biological testing for their resistance to the highly toxic engine catalyst known as Flock, and set the stage for Earth to become one of the richest planets in the galaxy.

• | Author: M. D. Tabat
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1537756893
• | ISBN-13: 9781537756899