Heaven's War by David S Goyer & Michael Cassutt

Author:David S Goyer & Michael Cassutt [Goyer, David S & Cassutt, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781101581001
Google: XRehap8Xp1AC
Amazon: 0441020925
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2012-07-02T22:00:00+00:00

My favorite video game was Satan War, where you got to shoot your way out of the deepest part of hell while crossing rivers of fire and oceans of shit and fields of spikes.

All the while being chased by demons and hoping you could get to heaven.

So far my life in Keanu has been a lot like Satan War, only WITHOUT THE POWER UPGRADES AND WEAPONS AND THE GOAL OF HEAVEN.

KEANU-PEDIA BY PAV, ENTRY #4

THE PRISONER

Struck by the long-finned creature, the Prisoner did not lose consciousness, but it was stunned, almost paralyzed.

The strange creature continued to approach, perhaps to conduct an examination. Which worked to the Prisoner’s advantage; it would conduct its own examination of its assailant.

The Prisoner realized its assailant was smaller and, most unusually, not wearing any kind of garment to protect it against open space. When the assailant spread itself, it revealed many fins—arms, nonaquatic beings called them.

For a moment, the Prisoner thought it one of the broken vessel’s crew.

But now the Prisoner recognized this creature. It didn’t belong here any more than the Prisoner did. The Prisoner knew, of course, that its people were not the only residents of the warship. There were others, some of them quite dangerous. The Prisoner had never met any of these others, of course, dangerous or not. But it had been warned since youth about one in particular:

This type, a Tall Fins.

The Prisoner was never quite sure what was so fearsome about the Tall Fins. They were relatively small, for one thing. They did not appear to possess the traits of an intelligent race—no clothing, no tools, no transport vessels.

No communications. There was no chance the two could strike a truce. So went the stories. Yet apparently wherever the Tall Fins went, other creatures died.

However, this was not the Tall Fins’s environment. It was forced to scramble along the sharply angled walls of the interior, which took time and allowed the Prisoner to recover and pry a metal rod from the vessel’s interior—

A quick swipe of the rod sent the Tall Fins flying into a wall.

The Tall Fins seemed momentarily stunned. Brandishing the metal rod, the Prisoner maneuvered blindly toward the vessel’s hatchway, knowing an exit was going to be difficult because of the small dimensions of the opening.

The Prisoner considered the next move. The Tall Fins did not appear to be strong enough to engage in a duel of metal rods. But what other weapons did it have? Poisons? The warship’s builders had stocked the resident environment with a menace long extinct on the home world: a round floating creature that defended itself with a shower of needles—

Shifting within its protective suit of skin, the Prisoner brandished the rod. The Tall Fins reacted, retreating. In the combat games of youth, the Prisoner had learned to feint with the major arm, then shift the weapon to a lesser arm for the killing blow.

But the wound in its back! Much worse than the Prisoner had believed. It felt pinned, almost helpless.

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