The Flight of SS Prosperity

By Dennis Black

The modern novel was born in the 19th century, and she died in the 20th.  The .epub format is the stake thru her heart, just in case.  Online preview utilities guard her crypt, ensuring that she can never escape except in mangled scraps.  Yet there may be a way around them . . .

 

Th'e·novel Above the Sun – 1st in the Strains series – is a highly formatted yet reflowable experimental hybrid that makes significant use of multi·colored texts and backgrounds, is thus not intended for most e·readers.  This short·story #1a excerpts a few pieces from that novel, for use in checking the compatibility of any such device.  Good luck!  If the device fails yet the story succeeds, do try a different device.

 

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StarShip Prosperity is returning Terran humanity to outer space for the first time since Collapse 3 centuries ago.  The crew of 4, all military, hopes to re·establish contact with the descendants of those who were stranded up there, yet some·how survived all this time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: non·standard thought
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781962461047

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the Flight of

SS Prosperity

Th'e·novel Above the Sun

is a highly formatted yet reflowable

experimental hybrid that makes

significant use of multi·colored texts

and backgrounds, is thus not intended

for most e·readers.

This short·story #1a excerpts a few pieces

from that novel, for use in checking

the compatibility of any such device.

Good luck!

If the device fails yet the story

succeeds, do try a different device.

Dennis Black

Copyright © 2023 by Dennis Black

All rights reserved.

Excerpted with permission

from Above the Sun,

copyright © 2023 Dennis Black.

ISBN:  978-1-962461-04-7

Publisher:  non·standard thought

First edition:  September 2023

This is a work of escape fiction. 

As such, any resemblance to reality

is a failing for which you have

my most embarrassed apology

as·well·as my keenest curiosity

about the nature of the reality

that you personally inhabit,

and I encourage you to please

write it all down in great detail,

so that your semi·detached state

might provide that much further

escape for the rest of us, for which

we shall all be most grateful.

connect

Prosperity

Houston

Collapse + 19.000 laaps : Terra

Any·thing, that can happen, will happen,