Apr 19, 2016

Greetings Followers of the Space Sloth,

We have some new faces in the crowd tonight. Welcome all, and thank you for supporting my book. You can do something for me tonight and it won’t even cost you anything. The Hard Science Fiction contest is currently going on. Find a book that isn’t in the top ten and follow it. It can be discouraging being behind in a contest. Just having a new follower can pick up your spirits. So find something that looks interesting and give them a little support.

Now, back to Fortunes of the Space Sloth. I give you this short excerpt from Chapter 24:

Sebastian had finished with the supports and was now rummaging in his pack for something.  “In an ideal world I’d try to take this whole thing, but we don’t have time.  We’ll have to settle for one out of eight units and hope it can do something on its own.”  Finally he found what he had been looking for, a roll of tape.

“Duct tape?  Seriously?” Buttercup asked in irritation. “What do you expect to do with that?”

“This just isn’t any duct tape,” Sebastian began in his best info-vid salesman voice. “This is the new and improved, Spacer Duct Tape. When heated the polymers inside change shape to fill and seal and surface.” Then switching back to his normal voice, “I’m going to use it to seal the ends of these fluid tubes so nothing leaks out. Whatever this stuff is, it’s probably important.”

“That’s never going to work. We need to find some kind of clamp to use.” When Sebastian continued working with the tape she tried again to get him to see reason. “It’s just duct tape. It holds stuff together, it doesn’t stop leaks.”

“You better hope it does,” Sebastian mumbled under his breath, “it’s stopping several leaks on the Sloth right now.”