Monday, May 23, 2011
Sci Fi Short Story: That Distant Eden
The passengers and crew of the generational ship Thoreau are finally nearing the end of their centuries-long journey to colonize the uninhabited Gordon's Planet. It will be a new beginning, an opportunity to avoid the mistakes of their ancestors who ravaged Earth.
There's only one problem. Gordon's Planet isn't uninhabited after all. And its indigenous people do not wish to be colonized...
Available now as an ebook... only 99 cents.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/61912
http://www.amazon.com/That-Distant-Eden-ebook/dp/B00528ILAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1306202706&sr=8-1
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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