Showdown

By Steven Buckshaw

Tarnation started as a penal colony. When they got exiled to this world, they weren't supposed to survive. The forcefence they built keeps the native varmints out, as well as the bad air those creatures breathe. Now the fence is failing. They've no more spare parts left to fix it. The traders Gleas and Slick can't get them what they need, not this time-Tarnation is too poor a settlement. Yet far across Living Space, in the gap between galaxies, is Showdown-the debris field of an ancient battle, large as a solar system ... Gleas and Slick can take a small group there. One of those vast alien wrecks, if they're lucky, might have a shielding array they can salvage. And they won't have to pay anybody for the technology if they dig it out themselves. That won't be easy, of course-and that's the easiest part of it. For the battlefield teems with rival scavengers and predators. If they get caught and killed, their home dies with them. >> Cover by Greg Wasylik

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514164531
• ISBN13: 9781514164532
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"