A New Past’s explosive beginning
One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’m sharing some excerpts from my series, A New Past to share some of the “non-erotic” elements. This excerpt is from chapter one of Book One and covers the opening events that send the main character back in time.
Something startled me awake. I sat up on the couch and looked at my watch. Three hours. The accumulators should be fully charged. I stood and then heard a muffled thud. It sounded like someone was trying to bust open the door into the lab area from the Physics building. I heard another thud, this time accompanied by the subtle sound of glass cracking. They were trying to break in.
I hurried back to my workstation and saw that everything was set to run. I quickly typed a command and set the output to stream directly to my public cloud account. I locked the workstation as I finally heard the wire reinforced glass of the door shatter. I could now hear their voices. Husky, male, with a lilting, foreign tongue.
“Quiet. The rent-a-cops may ignore the bribe if we are too loud.”
“Do we care? We need to destroy them all for allowing this abomination to take place. The power of the sun is Allah’s, not man’s.”
I grabbed my pad and card and headed deeper into the lab. Maybe I could hide from them long enough for the system to fire and confirm my results. The safety cage around the test machine might keep them out for long enough. Quickly, and as quietly as possible, I entered the code for the cage door, opened it, and slipped inside.
“Look at all this wasted crap.” A voice declared. It sounded like they were near my workstation.
Crash!
“Those are just monitors. We need to destroy the computers he is using and his test set-up, not just monitors. Spread out and let’s get busy. Mullah Azim wants this done quickly. We must destroy this work and the man who would dare this work.”
I tucked myself back under the test bench and looked at my pad. The firing sequence had started.
“Someone is in that cage!” I heard. I pulled my foot in, cursing myself for not hiding better.
“Come out, old man and you will not be hurt.” They must think me an idiot.
“Ari, open that door.”
Boom! A blast shook the air, and I heard buckshot scatter against the wire cage and back wall.
“Idiots!” I called. “You’re shooting at a fusion reactor that is about ready to fire!”
Another blast hit the cage door, and then suddenly I was washed in incandescent white light and all sound ceased. My last thought was, “So this is what being inside a fusion explosion is like.”
I hope you enjoyed this excerpt. Read more to see how Paul created his fabulous car and more by checking out Book One of A New Past available on Amazon for Kindle.
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