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Nor Through Inaction [MultiFormat]
eBook by Michael A. Burstein & Charles Ardai
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Pilot Gregory Nunzio is about to find out that his robotic spaceship's directive to keep him alive may be too much to bear when they crash upon a remote asteroid...
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [85 KB], eReader (PDB) [32 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [19 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [18 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [69 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [90 KB], hiebook (KML) [74 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [47 KB], iSilo (PDB) [16 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [20 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [48 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [30 KB]
Words: 5553
Reading time: 15-22 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
They crashed on Deltaina four days out from Station Fabrice. The search radius was small enough, but they were not found.
Deltaina had been abandoned a decade earlier when all its ores had been coaxed out of their hiding places. Now its surface was pocked with artificial entry faults, scored with the treadmarks of long-gone mining tools, and riddled with the gouged-out caverns that marked successful strikes. It was into one of these caverns that they plunged, and then into its attendant tunnel, before coming to a stop at a point very near the center of the asteroid. Here they remained, immobile, while the reconnaissance ship went past, for they had no way of responding to its signal. "This is I.T. Redcross hailing I.T. Randall, I.T. Randall please copy." The voice grew clearer as the ship came closer. "This is I.T. Redcross on reconnaissance, all I.T.s in range please copy." A few voices came over the channel in response, but Randall's was not among them. "I.T. Randall, this is I.T. Redcross, please copy." Then the voice grew fainter as the ship moved away.
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