Looking for some space opera?
How about some space opera that features the same characters that appear in a story originally published on Amazing Stories that will soon be featured in that magazine’s annual Best of anthology (Amazing Stories: The Best of 2023)?
We know you’ve all been looking for some good ‘ol space opera fun – well here it is!
Jack MacKenzie’s The Gear Crew
A SPACE SHIP IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS GEAR CREW
That is the mantra that itinerant ‘gears’ − starship engineers − Franklin and Sri live by. They’ve just been hired to work aboard a prestigious luxury liner, but their plans are disrupted when an unknown fleet presses a ruthless attack.
Fleeing to safety, they and their semi-sentient toolbox organism known as the Quiddle, wind up aboard the Alizarin Crimson, a ship that is barely holding itself together and run by a dysfunctional crew led by the bullying Captain Boris Tankready. Turning the Crimson from space junk to shipshape is a challenge made more difficult by the discovery of a strange derelict.
While Franklin and Sri try to solve the mystery of the derelict, they find themselves confronted with an invasion force of creatures intent on wiping out all human beings in the galaxy.
The only thing standing between humanity and utter obliteration, is the Alizarin Crimson and its gear crew.
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BONUS ITEM!
The Gear Crew features characters who originally appeared in Mackenzie’s short story – The Bother with Bowbies – which you can read right here on the website! Check out The Crew to whet your appetite for more!
The Bother with Bowbies has also been selected as one of the stories that will appear in our forth-coming annual best of Amazing Stories anthology!
BUT WAIT! THERE’S EVEN MORE!
Amazing Stories also featured an Unexpected Questions interview with the author – check it out for even more insight into the innerworkings of Jack Mackenzie’s mind! You might find yourself bothered by Bowbies too! ASM: If you were secretly an alien visitor to the Earth, why are you here? JM: Okay… who have you been talking to?
Don’t miss out on the fun, check out The Gear Crew today
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