Author: dave

  • Chapter One – Arrival (Draft)  Silversides / David Nadas  Chapter One: Gliese 581 Solar System – 2132 Far below the rolling swell of the Monterey Bay where the endless trawl of current hooks along the ocean floor, a giant kelp began to lose its grip on the weakened shale; each surge tearing away the finger-like tendrils, each…

  • Watching a launch is a thing of beauty.  It is an assault on our eyes, for there is no other color like it.  It is an assault on our ears hearing the successive snare of explosions like someone is beating on our chest in time to our own heartbeat.  And when that fireball rises up,…