NOTE: This short story is also in the Digital Science Fiction Anthology – Volume 5 Cosmic Hooey (ASIN: B017CJ1ZZ0). You can get this short story and nine more in Cosmic Hooey, saving about 50% off the total list price of the 10 stand-alone short stories. Or,buy any one or more of these great stories at just 99 usd-cents each! It’s up to you!
When the Lunar Transport Reynolds sends out a distress signal and then disappears, it is up to Ron and the Third Squad of the Outer Watch to race out for an attempted rescue. But in an environment as harsh as the Moon, where each mistake can be fatal, will there be anyone for Third Squad to save?
Award-winning author Martin L. Shoemaker weaves a story of taught intensity as rescue crews find themselves in a race against time while the crew of the Reynolds is trapped without transportation, severely injured, and waiting to see if the ship’s hull will withstand the vacuum long enough to be saved.
This is gripping science fiction at its finest.
This is…Digital Science Fiction. — Your brain will thank us.
Scramble – Digital Science Fiction Short Story (Book 1), is an original science fiction short story from award winning author Martin L. Shoemaker. Digital Science Fiction screens hundreds of stories to present you with only the best science fiction has to offer. We are pleased present this original science fiction story and know you will find Scramble to be worth the read.
About the Author: Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but a second place story in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! His work has appeared in Digital Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Galaxy’s Edge, Clarkesworld, and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31. His novella Murder on the Aldrin Express was reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirty-First Annual Collection and in Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4.
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