Ronald D. Ferguson
ASIN: B006ZD07JK
Publisher: AyoKite Publishing
Pages: 246
--Sometimes the dreams you imagine are not as good as the reality you get.When Henri Kourtney agrees to ferry torg-hunting tourists to the wilderness of a backwoods planet, he postpones his ambition to explore the stars. Henri hopes the expedition allows time to get to know the cute girl from Earth and maybe land him an interstellar berth with her astrophysicist cousin. He doesn't expect his angry ex-girlfriend to join the trip, that the tourists are more interested in satellite-image planetography than torg, that torg are not native to the planet, or that his new digital assistant's constant bickering is the birth pang of sentience. The biggest surprise is that a mineral-encrusted artifact conceals a purpose as mundane as a subway token, and that all their lives depend on whether the cosmic subway still runs.Other Books by Ronald D. Ferguson available at Amazon.com:The Last Starship ...