Book Review – The Forever Year by Lou Aronica

Author: Lou Aronica Title: Pages: 366 Formats: Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, Audio Book ISBN-10: 1611881005 ISBN-13: 978-1611881004 Availability: Amazon Website: Lou Aronica Book Blurb: USA TODAY BESTSELLERJesse Sienna doesn’t believe that love can last. His parents’ marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn […]

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February 29, 2020

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60-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 29th, 2552 Heart to Heart Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It was after my third training run of the day while I was waiting for Flight Ops to decide what monkey wrenches they could throw my way when I caught sight of Dancer. Betty Jean Cartanzki— I kid you […]

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59-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 28th, 2552 Catch and Release Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting So… the selected pilots they get to do planetary landings and all the extra flight time they can manage so they have as much experience as possible. That means landing on everything in the fleet, including Big Momma, and lots […]

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58-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 27th, 2552 Briefing Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting You can feel the excitement building. Everyone in the fleet from the conscriptee pushing a broom in maintenance to the lady serving coffee at the briefings, to the staff taking notes, we all feel it— okay, all three of those are me, […]

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57-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 26th, 2552 Tow Truck Barge pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting With the first landing about to become a reality, I have a new-new job, and the Gumbo just added another purpose to her resume – Tow truck. The RS Gumbo is now the official barge for the Pavane. While the research […]

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56-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 25th, 2552 Flight Team Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting With the exploration teams focusing on landing and training – the missions are being planned and each pilot is being assigned a dedicated support team – Mechanics, trainers and even a nutritionist. Any time they request a change to their ship, […]

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55-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 24th, 2552 Final Exam Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Turns out the Gumbo wasn’t my Apprentice project – it was more a proof that I could follow directions, figure out what I needed and how to put something together from the ground up. My actual project to be judged by […]

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54-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 23rd, 2552 9th Day Races Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting I have a new side project to work on, one I actually have some experience in. One of the things the fleet planned for us this 9th day was some races. Each ship pulled a pilot from their exploration team […]

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53-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 22nd, 2552 Boxing as Therapy Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting I realize it was probably part of the investigation, but Tower was in the gym when I got there. I haven’t really done any training since the last time I needed this particular form of therapy, but he and several […]

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52-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

February 21st, 2552 Cold Reality Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting We lost another crewman today. One of the conscriptees was found in a restricted area of the ship. Ship’s security investigated it – they took a whole 10 minutes out of their day to look into his past and the scene […]

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