Calling All Writers
Join For Free, Promote Your Book,
Meet Other Writers, Share Your Writing!
Tell a friend Print this page Bookmark this page
Book Publishing
What's Going On:
- Needing Book Reviewers Our free book review program is expanding to the point where we need new book reviewers. Sign up today and don't miss out on a chance to review one of our fabulous Independent books.
- CNN.com Mentions Nothing Binding Our community was mentioned recently in an aritcle on CNN.com, check out the link at the NBlog.
- New Writers Forums We have launched our new Writers Groups Forums, thank you to everyone who provided feedback and continue to give us ideas on how to improve.
The Tesserene Imperative
By Mark Terence Chapman
Five men in a wrecked spaceship have three days of air, little water, a wrecked drive, and no hope of rescue. How can they survive?
Download Excerpt: Tessarene Imperative-Excerpt.doc
Help promote this title
Description
It was supposed to be a routine prospecting mission, but something went wrong. With 43 billion souls crammed together on Mother Earth—using up natural resources at an unsustainable rate—the essential minerals that support human civilization are in desperately low supply. Tesserene, the mineral that makes starflight travel possible, is especially critical. Without it, humans are effectively imprisoned on their home world. When prospecting ship Shamu is almost destroyed in a distant asteroid belt, Swede Johansen and rest of the crew of five is left with three days of air, little water, a smashed starflight drive, and no hope of rescue. It will take every ounce of ingenuity and stubborn pigheadedness they possess to find a way to survive. If they *do* find a solution, the ultimate jackpot awaits them in the shadows of a distant moon—if the galaxy doesn't kill them first.
