Three Sleeps till Saturn

<p>Three rollicking sci-fi novellas from Davi Mai. Vagabond Proxima Bound and Warp Factor: Bitch</p><p> </p><p><strong>Synopsis for VAGABOND</strong></p><p>She was born stunted. A runt. From her snub-nosed bridge to her chubby rear thrusters. An ugly child spat from the womb of a Martian shipyard generations ago. Now charred and pitted with craters the scars on her battered titanium skin tell a hundred stories.</p><p> This is one of those stories.</p><p> Join Brenda the Vagabond's cantankerous bitch of a captain as she leads her crew on a treacherous mission; to haul a mysterious pod from the outer reaches of the solar system to the Martian colonies.</p><p> It's up to Chief Engineer Rat a scrawny little pervert to stop the Vagabond's plasma engines exploding. When he's not polishing the mirrors on his shoes.</p><p> Be seduced by the beautiful but deadly Communications Officer Katomi. What she can't solve with her body she'll solve with her collection of knives. Her enemies die with a smile on their face and a blade in their belly.</p><p> Will the Vagabond reach Mars before Brenda runs out of whiskey and gets REALLY mad? </p><p> Will Katomi burn in hell for seducing that monk back on Jupiter Station?</p><p> Will Rat ever get into Katomi's pants and survive the encounter with all his appendages attached?</p><p> And just what's inside the mysterious pod?</p><p> </p><p><strong>Synopsis for PROXIMA BOUND</strong></p><p>Humanity's last hope rests with the colonists aboard the generational starship Attenborough. Bound for Proxima Centauri a thousand years away. Catastrophe strikes when a reactor meltdown cuts off those in the ship's front from the rear. Two factions must now struggle to survive. </p><p>With four hundred years still to travel we join plucky teenager Thief. She's found a way through the ventilation system around the radioactive core of the ship and into the front sections. Thief brings back vital components that might help the rear-dwellers connect the ship's computer. For the first time in hundreds of years there is hope. </p><p>But people are disappearing without a trace and the makeshift hospital is overflowing with cases of a new virus.</p><p>It's up to Thief to embark on her toughest mission yet. To crawl through the bowels of the ship the furthest she's ever been and find some answers before there's no-one left alive.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Synopsis for WARP FACTOR BITCH</strong></p><p>When you wake up in a cage at a slave market on an alien planet of sentient lizards you might be forgiven for thinking Life's a bitch and then you die before surrendering all hope.</p><p>Jen decides instead that SHE'S the bitch and she's going to give life a swift kick in the balls. Or the lizard equivalent of balls anyway.</p><p>Join her as she fights back on behalf of her devastated human race in this rollicking sci-fi novella that's sure to offend someone.</p><p><br> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>