A Thousand Eves E-Book

George Saoulidis

• Herausgeber: George Saoulidis
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Aboard a Generation Ship, Men Are Optional Y The Last Man meets Battlestar Galactica in this generation spanning space story. When Ash returns from his scouting mission, he finds the generation fleet 60 years older and run over by women. But will he manage to deliver his precious data to the ship's computer, when his only friends are a teenage girl and a chauvinist drone, when every woman aboard wants to kill him on sight and when the bloodthirsty leader Una wants to stop things from changing? Do you want to see what's next for the Ash the Last Scout and Dot the only orphan? Do you want to meet AI Luna? Then read this multifaceted space story that challenges the very foundations of humanity.

Leseprobe

Contents

Title Page

Chapter 1: Generation 6

Chapter 2: Gen 4

Chapter 3: Gen 6

Chapter 4 : Gen 7

Chapter 5: Gen 7

Chapter 6: Gen 4

Chapter 7: Gen 4

Chapter 8: Gen 4

Chapter 9: Gen 4

Chapter 10: Gen 4

Chapter 11: Gen 4

Chapter 12 : Gen 6

Chapter 13 : Gen 7

Chapter 14: Gen 6

Chapter 15: Gen 4

Chapter 16: Gen 4

Chapter 17: Gen 4

Chapter 18: Gen 7

Chapter 19: Gen 7

Chapter 20: Gen 4

Chapter 21: Gen 6

Chapter 22: Gen 7

Chapter 23: Gen 7

Chapter 24: Gen 7

Chapter 25: Gen 7

Chapter 26 : Gen 7

Chapter 27: Gen 7

Chapter 28: Gen 7

Chapter 29: Gen 6

Chapter 30: Gen 7

Chapter 31 : Gen 7

Chapter 32: Gen 7

Chapter 33: Gen 7

Chapter 34: Gen 7

Chapter 35: Gen 8

Chapter 1: Generation 6

“The females are trying to break in!” the drone said as it barricaded the lab door.

The old scientist sat on his desk and exhaled slowly. He took out his comm with shaky fingers and propped it up on a book. A real book, just like they used to have back on Earth. He had expended his matter allowance on the 3D printer and had asked for ‘The four voyages of Christopher Columbus.’ The ancient explorer’s words didn’t apply on a generation fleet of course. He hadn’t had to survive and die on his ship, so that his grandchildren could reach the promised land.

Everyone thought the book was a waste of matter. Now there it was, propping up his comm just nicely.

Yells came muffled through the door.

“Have you gone senile Ben? I’m trying to save your life here and you are making a video?” asked the drone in his high-pitched male voice.

“Remi, leave me alone. I just want to get this off my chest,” he said with a sigh.

“Sure, sure. I’ll just leave you here, in your lab, under siege. The most brilliant mind of the fourth generation, left to barbarian house-ladies,” the drone mocked. He welded a piece of metal on the door.

“Quiet.” Ben corrected his glasses, pressed the record button and breathed in. “This is for my friend Ash. I don’t know why in these apocalyptic times, my thoughts keep coming back to our childhood together. I haven’t seen you in fifty years, ever since you left for that scouting mission. I don’t know if you are dead or alive, or if due to time dilation you’ve been currently dying a slow death for my relative fifty years. I know, your mind hurts when you think of science. Trust me, it makes sense.”

The old man’s voice broke. “You’ve been there for me Ash. You were like my brother. Fuck that, you are my brother. Maybe that’s it, maybe that’s why I miss you so much. Maybe, if you hadn’t gone on that mission, you’d be here to tell me how stupid I was. How hopelessly optimistic I was to believe we could come up with a fair solution and survive.”

Voices cursed outside. There was loud banging, some sort of battering ram, hitting the metal door and making it ring like a bell with a cough.

Ben looked at the door and teared up. He looked young now, fragile, scared. “There are bullies coming for me Ash. Coming to beat me up and break my fragile bones. Coming to smash my glasses and steal my comm.”

“Vagina-humans! Cease this riot immediately!” Remi said amplifying his voice. The door rent halfway and yells erupted into the room. Pipes and knives and makeshift weapons came in through the gap, flailing wildly. Remi was struck on his plastic body and separated in two pieces. “You mad-women! Are you all menstruating simultaneously?”

Ben sniffled and looked back at the camera. “Where are you Ash? I need you to save me from the bullies,” he said bitterly.

The women broke in the lab and stabbed Ben.

Seventeen stabs, one from each woman. They were yelling, cursing him, spitting on him. He couldn’t feel pain, just some wetness in his belly while he lay on the floor. His glasses were kicked away but he couldn’t find them amongst all those boots.

An angry woman brought her face close to his. He could recognize her, her name was Una? Something like that. She had shaved the side of her head and was wearing armor, made of excess paneling and insulation material.

Una brought her makeshift spear down on Ben and cut through his earlobe. “Thank you Ben for all your help,” she said with contempt. “But now it’s our turn.” She stood up and yelled, “We don’t need men no longer!” and the rioting women cheered and hollered.

Then they left him there to bleed out.

The broken drone managed to crawl across the lab floor and bring Ben’s glasses to him. “Oh, what have those child-factories done to you man?”

“Remi?”

“Yes Ben?”

“I’ve always wanted to tell you...” he coughed. His eyes were unfocused, as if seeing through the ship’s hull straight into heaven.

“It’s OK Ben. You’ll be fine, you still got a decade or so in that crumbling meatbag of yours.”

“I wanted to...” he wheezed.

The drone leaned closer to his mouth. “Yes friend?” he said with respect.

“Remi... is a girl’s name,” Ben said and died.

Chapter 2: Gen 4

“You wanna do what?” the boy laughed and then punched Ash again on the face.

He wasn’t really expecting an answer, but Ash gave it anyway. “I wanna become a Scout,” he repeated, lying on the floor and covering his head.

The gang laughed at that, pointing and spitting and mocking their hearts out. There wasn’t much to do aboard the fleet, so they took their entertainment where they could. Dug, their leader, stomped on Ash’s leg.

It snapped. Ash wailed.