Ellie Quin Book 01: The Legend of Ellie Quin Read Online Free
Author: Alex Scarrow
whispered.
‘Three hundred and fifty-six creds.’
He winced. He guessed that was enough money to rent a room in the city for a couple of weeks, a seedy one at that. He could see a disturbing range of future scenarios ahead for her, the best-case one being her returning to this farm, her dreams of escape in tatters, broken-hearted and penniless.
‘I’ll see you same time next week; remember to bone up on that dom-tech module.’
Ellie didn’t reply. He thought that maybe she was crying.
OMNIPEDIA:
[Human Universe open source digital encyclopedia]
Article: Harpers Reach - The birth planet of Ellie Quin’
Harpers Reach was a planet in the Seventh Veil that was first charted and surveyed in 3041, seventy years after the Colonial Wars had come to an end. As a consequence, this new frontier planet had never, mercifully, experienced first-hand - unlike established worlds caught up in that conflict - the horrors of post-fusion warfare. It was, however, a planet on the very edge of Human Space, away from the densest trade routes and the prosperity that that brings. It was also woefully short of valuable, tradable natural resources that might have attracted commerce towards it. It’s only merit was that it offered a sizeable surface of seismically stable real estate.
Harpers Reach was always destined to be a poor, under-achieving, uninteresting frontier world. Doomed, like most of its inhabitants, to irrelevance from birth.
At the time of Ellie Quin’s childhood, Harpers Reach was in the middle of an extended economic recession. It was a planet that was still too young to have matured out of its two domed cities to establish extensive industry across the planet’s surface. In addition, the principal city, New Haven , a sprawling and squalid metropolis, was becoming swollen with ecological migrants from the nearby failed colony world of Celestion .
User Comment > SpingleBrick
I herd Harpers Reach wuz never real. Itz all mad up conspirisy by the govvyment cuz they like to make liez an stuff.
User Comment > BiiiiiG-Boy
Helloooo gentlemens! Is your sex drive failing you? Do you wish you could make love all night long like a true God!? Then try CosmoRod Stim-Shakers . Three strokes and your partner will be in seventh heaven!
User Comment > Anonymous
To the complete ditto-head above - Harpers Reach is real. And it’s still there you idiot. They do archaeological tours there. Look it up. (Why do all the stupidest people in the universe have to post here on Omnipedia? There’s plenty of other places uniweb for you vegetables to gather.)
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CHAPTER 4
Dr Edward Mason stared out of the window of his dark study, down at the azure panorama below. He loved this view. It would be the one thing he truly missed.
He turned his back on the blue vista of Pacifica, the ocean world, above which the labs hung in static orbit. There were things to be done. He was due on the mid-morning shuttle down to Pacifica, to all intents and purposes to embark on a long overdue two week sailing vacation, away from his work. But in actual fact Mason was quietly preparing to disappear for good; to leave behind his tiresome, largely managerial, role here at the Department of Genetic Analysis.
For thirty years Mason had been in charge of the enormous cluster of laboratories floating above Pacifica; three decades running the department for the Administration. And in that time, dutifully doing his job, overseeing his staff as they collated genetic data from the millions of paternity requests that flooded in from all corners of Human Space. Playing God; deciding which hopeful citizens would be granted permission to have children, and which would be denied.
Mason recalled the line from a popular song from a few years ago: it’s was all down to them genes, groovy-oovy genes, bay-beee!!
Playing with our genes – vetting, approving, editing, rewriting precious passages of
‘Three hundred and fifty-six creds.’
He winced. He guessed that was enough money to rent a room in the city for a couple of weeks, a seedy one at that. He could see a disturbing range of future scenarios ahead for her, the best-case one being her returning to this farm, her dreams of escape in tatters, broken-hearted and penniless.
‘I’ll see you same time next week; remember to bone up on that dom-tech module.’
Ellie didn’t reply. He thought that maybe she was crying.
OMNIPEDIA:
[Human Universe open source digital encyclopedia]
Article: Harpers Reach - The birth planet of Ellie Quin’
Harpers Reach was a planet in the Seventh Veil that was first charted and surveyed in 3041, seventy years after the Colonial Wars had come to an end. As a consequence, this new frontier planet had never, mercifully, experienced first-hand - unlike established worlds caught up in that conflict - the horrors of post-fusion warfare. It was, however, a planet on the very edge of Human Space, away from the densest trade routes and the prosperity that that brings. It was also woefully short of valuable, tradable natural resources that might have attracted commerce towards it. It’s only merit was that it offered a sizeable surface of seismically stable real estate.
Harpers Reach was always destined to be a poor, under-achieving, uninteresting frontier world. Doomed, like most of its inhabitants, to irrelevance from birth.
At the time of Ellie Quin’s childhood, Harpers Reach was in the middle of an extended economic recession. It was a planet that was still too young to have matured out of its two domed cities to establish extensive industry across the planet’s surface. In addition, the principal city, New Haven , a sprawling and squalid metropolis, was becoming swollen with ecological migrants from the nearby failed colony world of Celestion .
User Comment > SpingleBrick
I herd Harpers Reach wuz never real. Itz all mad up conspirisy by the govvyment cuz they like to make liez an stuff.
User Comment > BiiiiiG-Boy
Helloooo gentlemens! Is your sex drive failing you? Do you wish you could make love all night long like a true God!? Then try CosmoRod Stim-Shakers . Three strokes and your partner will be in seventh heaven!
User Comment > Anonymous
To the complete ditto-head above - Harpers Reach is real. And it’s still there you idiot. They do archaeological tours there. Look it up. (Why do all the stupidest people in the universe have to post here on Omnipedia? There’s plenty of other places uniweb for you vegetables to gather.)
User Comment > XXX-come-buy-XXX
want to buy black market alien sex tapes?
CHAPTER 4
Dr Edward Mason stared out of the window of his dark study, down at the azure panorama below. He loved this view. It would be the one thing he truly missed.
He turned his back on the blue vista of Pacifica, the ocean world, above which the labs hung in static orbit. There were things to be done. He was due on the mid-morning shuttle down to Pacifica, to all intents and purposes to embark on a long overdue two week sailing vacation, away from his work. But in actual fact Mason was quietly preparing to disappear for good; to leave behind his tiresome, largely managerial, role here at the Department of Genetic Analysis.
For thirty years Mason had been in charge of the enormous cluster of laboratories floating above Pacifica; three decades running the department for the Administration. And in that time, dutifully doing his job, overseeing his staff as they collated genetic data from the millions of paternity requests that flooded in from all corners of Human Space. Playing God; deciding which hopeful citizens would be granted permission to have children, and which would be denied.
Mason recalled the line from a popular song from a few years ago: it’s was all down to them genes, groovy-oovy genes, bay-beee!!
Playing with our genes – vetting, approving, editing, rewriting precious passages of
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