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    The Earth Ship
    The Earth Ship
    The Earth Ship
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    The Earth Ship

    By Graham Storrs

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    This is a short story (under 9,000 words) about a distant future and a lost colony. The planet Beasphor had enjoyed hundreds of years of peace - until the Earth ship arrived.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Storrs
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9780987186744
    The Earth Ship
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    Graham Storrs

    Graham Storrs is a science fiction writer who lives miles from anywhere in rural Australia with his wife, an Airedale terrier and a Tonkinese cat. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies as well as three children's science books and a large number of academic and technical pieces in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He has published a number of sci-fi novels, three in the "Timesplash" series - time travel thrillers set in the near future and various other times - an augmented reality thriller, "Heaven is a Place on Earth", a sci-fi comedy novel, "Cargo Cult", and two books in the Rik Sylver sci-fi thriller series; "The Credulity Nexus" and "The Sentience Machine".

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