Wednesday 23 December 2015

Yet more from the pages of Reach for Mars:

“Actually, that does raise a rather difficult problem. How are we going to explore that shipwreck when it is buried under all that sand and dust? It’s far too big an area to dig out with shovels; even the excavator wouldn’t be able to handle it in a useful time frame.”
“Calling it a shipwreck when it lies in the middle of a desert on a planet that has no readily available water is, to say the least, extremely incongruous!” Mel interrupted.
I glanced over at her. “It’s a spaceship, and it’s wrecked,” I replied.
Then I looked back at Nick in anticipation of his answer to my question,

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