'Skipper

S.A. Barton
3,6
34 reviews
eBook
19
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 A short story, about 5000 words.

N.T. is in trouble. Her ship has crashlanded. Her captain is gravely injured. When a group of native aliens kidnap one of her two remaining crewmates, it's up to her and Danielle to figure out how to rescue him and keep the captain safe at the same time, with only a single antique weapon between them. On top of that, the aliens are not quite what they seem...


Alien life, space exploration, planet, planetary survey, alien intelligence, sea life, crash landing, stranded, marooned, rescue, short story, scifi, specfic, speculative fiction, alien civilization, man vs. nature, human vs. nature, woman vs. nature, escape, kidnapping, kidnapped, cattle, captured, stone ax, axe, mating dance, dancers, alien wildlife

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3,6
34 reviews
Michael Car****
09 May 2019
...and yet, I remember some of the old B-Movie Sci-fi films that were originally too old for me to remember, but they would play them, 4 in a row, on Sundays, when I was growing up in Los Angeles in late 70s, early 80s. Anyway, it was a VERY common theme for a still-alive-albeit-wounded crew member (from injuries of the crash landing) who would stay behind, while ALL of the others ( cuz no matter how many crew, they always have to leave the wounded) would "explore." So, a slight plot change was good.
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Eugene Ward
14 December 2024
I will re-read this one.
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Patrick Martin
27 September 2018
Way too short.
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About the author

 S.A. Barton lives in coastal Virginia with his wife, teen stepson, two little ones, and demanding cat (as they all are). His path to the present was a strange, sometimes harrowing, and winding one; you may find this reflected in his writing. He has previously appeared in the pages of Penumbra magazine, in Daily Science Fiction, and in OMNI Reboot.


He's a winner of the first Amazing Stories Gernsback Writing Contest.

He is also proud to be a self-published indie author with dozens of short ebooks and collections to his credit, which may be found through sabarton.com. He also tweets far too much as @Tao23.

While most of S.A. Barton's work is in science fiction, some of it strays into other genres such as fantasy, mainstream, alternate history and others -- like the cat, it wanders some.

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