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    The Khellen Gift

    By John A. Kirk

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    By 2157 Humans had established bases on Luna, Mars, Altair-4 and Epsilon Cygni-5 and their latest exploratory voyage under the command of Captain Susan N’gami had reached the binary Jhoonan system.

    On Janus, a moon of Jhoona-5, a rock fall killed one crew member and seriously injured computer scientist and navigator James Balfour who was rescued and saved from death by the Khellens. The Khellens, from the Cygnus Arm of our galaxy, were on their own voyage of exploration following the path of an ancient race who traversed the galaxy 100,000 years before, establishing bases on several worlds along their path. The Khellens believed these bases included the planets Khellen, Traggha, Khandor, Epsilon Cygni-5 and Terra (Earth) and that the Old Ones had intervened to establish oxygen rich atmospheres and may even have influenced the evolution of selected species.

    In repairing Balfour, the Khellens had altered his DNA so that he could now use their cell regeneration process to prolong his life and, on his recovery, they met with Susan and the rest of the Terran crew and followed them back to є-Cygni-5. There, they offered Humanity the gift of a process and biological agents that would enable humans to greatly increase their longevity through DNA modification.

    Balfour now a hybrid creature, more Khellen than human, left with the Khellens accompanied by friend and electronics engineer Elias Whitfield who also underwent the DNA changes made to Balfour. When they returned to Terra five years later, having searched for traces of the Old Ones in the є-Cygni system, they found chaos. The DNA modification process had not been applied with due care by the six major political Federations on Terra, resulting in 106 million deaths in the Americas, India and the Sino-Asian bloc and there had been mutations and the refusal of some humans to participate leaving Terra with two genetically different “Human” populations.

    Unable to help resolve the disaster which some humans regarded as an alien plot to exterminate Humanity, the Khellens, departed with James, Elias and Susan N’gami, to continue on the trail of the Old Ones along the Orion Arm of the galaxy and after a 70-year journey in suspended animation, they came to the ancient pyramids of Shaarg-4. There they were able to deploy the Old Ones’ mechanism generating a negative energy beam that opened a conduit which the Khellen starship and half its crew entered for the intergalactic voyage to Andromeda, the Milky Way’s nearest big neighbor.

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    PublisherJohn A. Kirk
    Release dateDec 10, 2015
    ISBN9781311895448
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    John A. Kirk

    I'm an ethnic Scot, a British national, Canadian citizen and Australian resident who has also lived in the USA and the People's Republic of China. I started writing science fiction seven years before I retired from a 40-year career in IT; I've had 4 sci-fi books published in Australia which comprise a trilogy and a separate 4th book. The trilogy are The Khellen Gift (2003), The Zhin Mutations (2006) and The Salacian Legacy (2012). What I offer through Smashwords, are second editions which include updates to better synchronize the first two novels with the third, following my decision to complete the trilogy. I've recently uploaded a trilogy version which combines all three novels as parts 1, 2 and 3 of a single 600-page epic; that also contains some minor text revisions and updates to some of the illustrations. My 4th sci-fi novel was The Blue, Blue Hills of Xuhl, (a pun on the green, green grass of home) published in Australia in 2011; Xuhl was started after The Salacian Legacy, but was finished before. I've had a lifelong love of what I call real sci-fi since hearing the BBC radio series Journey Into Space way back circa 1953. In saying real sci-fi, I exclude superheroes, magic, witches, dragons, vampires, werewolves, zombies and dinosaurs; my 4 offerings to date have featured intelligent, technologically superior aliens rather than being horror stories though I loved movies like Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, Predator and War of the Worlds... and I understand the genetics associated with Jurassic Park and sequels makes a case for those to be regarded as sci-fi movies rather than just part of the horror genre. The biggest problem for sci-fi writers is how to travel anywhere in a reasonable time; we all must fabricate some way to achieve interstellar travel or else we're not leaving our own star system and the old stand-by is the wormhole; anything is possible inside those babies. Though they could theoretically exist, none have ever been identified; but then, a lot of things can exist mathematically that don't occur in Nature, such as negative quantities. But we need something, because the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and black holes are NOT holes... cross that event horizon and you're not coming out the other end, you're impacting on the singularity at the centre of the gravitational field, end of story !! "Toni" is completely different, a love story set in Melbourne Australia of 1990, where I have lived for 12 years in total. ☺

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