Irresistible
ARIA: Left Luggage begins with the discovery of a silvery suitcase-like object in the struts of the International Space Station (ISS). Nerd that I am, I was keen to ensure that those struts couldn’t be magnetic so I found by chance a Nasa engineer’s email and asked him. Imagine my surprise when he confirmed the struts are a rather thin aluminium, too thin for his – Leroy Chaio – liking because he was up there in orbit as we spoke! I don’t know of any other science fiction writer who was in more-or-less live communication with an astronaut in orbit.
Anyway what was in the news today? An engineer on an EVA at the ISS lost hold of a white toolbag. There, a photo of it looking rather like a suitcase!
See the case reflected in the faceplate of ARIA’s astronaut? (image by Andy Bigwood).
Jim Brown, my publisher, reminded me that in ARIA: Left Luggage I’d also predicted a viral pandemic although mine was rather more strange with infectious amnesia.
All we need now is for that toolbag to be really an alien helpful box of tricky viruses.
Nelder’s books in chronological order:
Escaping Reality – humorous thriller • http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
Hot Air – thriller set in Mallorca • http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ALIEN EXIT a science fiction first-contact novel as an ebook only https://mybook.to/alienexit
ARIA: Left Luggage – infectious amnesia scifi • smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA: Returning Left Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA: Abandon Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
The Chaos of Mokii ebook at https://mybook.to/Kaos
Revised Xaghra’s Revenge set in present-day and 16th Century Malta and Gozo now retitled as Vengeance Island http://mybook.to/VIsland
Incremental – 25 surreal short stories • http://mybook.to/Incremental
Suppose We -science fiction space exploration • https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
Kepler’s Son https://mybook.to/KeplersSon
Vanished Earth https://mybook.to/VEKindle
