The Rift: Hard Science Fiction by Brandon Q. Morris

Author:Brandon Q. Morris [Morris, Brandon Q.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 45032425
Publisher: Hard-SF.com
Published: 2019-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

The floorboards creaked. Was someone there? Derek opened the living room door and peered into the hallway, listening for sounds in the darkness. Was that someone breathing? And this perfume that he could smell—he felt like he knew it from somewhere. He switched on the light, but he had just been imagining it all. There was no one. He was alone. That was already the third time in the last hour. Maybe he needed to be more concerned about his mental health?

Maybe all of this was just a crazy idea, born from pure imagination and the result of too much loneliness. Akif, at least, seemed to have almost as much motivation as his own, and his receptionist just wanted to spend more time with her great love. An unemployed farmer, a Turkish doctor in exile, and an IT expert with Indian roots and stuck in a provincial life—they really were quite a group of losers.

And he thought the three of them, of all people, would be able to solve a problem that experts all over the world hadn’t been able to figure out yet? Derek laughed. That alone was evidence that he belonged locked away somewhere in a mental institution.

On the other hand, surely they were three harmless kooks. It wasn’t going to harm anyone if they simply tried to do something themselves. Didn’t all Americans have the God-given right to take their fate into their own hands? Johnny had been compensated for the future loss of his property, and after the launch, he hoped no one other than themselves would be put in any sort of danger.

What did he actually want? Derek was still not entirely sure. He would decide tomorrow morning. For now, he would go to bed. They wanted to launch before sunrise. He had talked the fuel suppliers into sending their trucks with the fuel around five in the morning. The drivers, who usually delivered to gas stations, were used to working very early in the morning. And when Johnny came looking for them, they would already be long gone.

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