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Pumpkin [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bud Sparhawk
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Jake Sands has a rocky relationship with Marie, but that is nothing in comparison with the difficulties he faces in dealing with the storms of Jupiter as he prospects for ore floating in it's thick atmosphere. But his efforts are almost rewarded when he discovers the richest nugget he's ever seen, even though it threatens to destroy him and his ship.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Dancing with Dragons, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [328 KB], eReader (PDB) [58 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [47 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [43 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [95 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [112 KB], hiebook (KML) [164 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [74 KB], iSilo (PDB) [40 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [49 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [77 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [67 KB]
Words: 14895
Reading time: 42-59 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Away from the station the wind was free. Out there, in the vastness that was Jupiter's atmosphere, the wind hummed sweetly, bragging of its freedom to move. But when it encountered the sharp prow of the station it screamed as if angered by this barrier, this obstacle to its travels.
Jake Sands, listened to the voice of the wind through the thick plating of the E-2 station. He could sense the power of the five hundred knot wind as it was split on either side by the station's sharp prow. He could feel the raw force of the fierce wind that, were the station to become separated from the tether that held it to the synchronous station far overhead, would toss it--and all of its fragile contents--as if it were no more than a child's beach ball. Jake listened as the wind spoke to him, listened to the voice of Jupiter.
"You've got that look again," Marie said. She was nursing a precious cup of coffee in her hands, sipping the liquid gold slowly, as if it were the nectar of the gods.
Jake snapped the cap on his own cup of tea, the only drink he could afford. He carefully measured a spoonful of sweetener into the dark brown brew and added a dollop of ersatz cream to lighten it. That done he sat back and sipped it slowly so as not to burn his tongue.
"I heard weather reporting a storm heading this way," Marie continued. "Figured that you'd be heading out, but wasn't sure until I saw your face."
"Am I that transparent?" Jake grinned as he took another sip. "And here I thought I was being old stone face."
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