Death Star

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Death Star

by Tom Pace

EN·~26 minutes·1 chapter

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1 total
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Part 1

26:19

Description

On the desolate world of Alpha Centauri III, a lone hunter named Starrett Blade—dubbed “Death Star” for his lethal efficiency— finds himself cast into a shallow, crystal‑clear lake after his ship is crippled by a mysterious energy beam. The planet’s endless rock plains and isolated waterholes create a stark backdrop for his desperate fight for survival, far from any friendly outpost.

Emerging from the water, Blade confronts a heavily armed member of the feared pirate Devil Garrett’s crew, dispatching him with a flash of his electron knife before the pirate’s jet‑gun erupts, scattering rock. As he steadies himself, a dark‑haired woman appears, her trembling voice demanding he surrender, while Blade grapples with the puzzling motives that have drawn her into his deadly game.

With his reflexes honed from years of tracking Garrett, Blade must decide whether to trust this enigmatic stranger or press on alone, all while the barren landscape hides clues to the true source of the lethal beam that brought him here.

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Language

en

Duration

~26 minutes (25K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2020-10-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

TP

Tom Pace

1929–2008

A little-known pulp science-fiction writer, he is remembered today through fast-moving magazine stories like Death Star and Example, first published in Planet Stories in the mid-1940s.

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