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    Life 2.147
    Life 2.147
    Life 2.147
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    Life 2.147

    By Bill Parker

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    Life has an energy all its own. It thrives where no one would ever believe. It clings to the smallest toehold. It flourishes given any chance at all.

    Jane Markett was an up-and-coming exo-archeologist when she first set foot on Zari-Kut-3 over a year ago. She was not about to let a bunch of stodgy, slow colleagues slow down her headlong search for Zat-Mat-Kut, an ancient alien religious site.

    The best android on this planet, Zack was the key to it all for Jane. He was more than just a strong back, his sensors were second to none. He was the latest in artificial intelligence. He was the key to her fast-track career path to fame and glory. All she had to do was convince Chuck, the Head Researcher in charge of this dig.

    What happened, though, was not what anybody expected.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Parker
    Release dateJan 16, 2016
    ISBN9781310546761
    Life 2.147
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    Bill Parker

    Native Western New York author, and world traveler, Bill Parker, spent most of his career engineering high-tech manufacturing systems for companies around the world. An accomplished deep space astrophotographer, he was a contributing editor for Modern Astronomy magazine when it was based in Attica, New York, working mainly on astrophotography articles and projects.Bill Parker has been a Black Belt in Isshin Ryu Karate and a martial artist for more than forty years. The times when all that stood between him and certain death was his martial arts gave Bill the indomitable spirit that pervades his thinking and writing to this day.Bill calls Earth his homeworld but he is an outworlder to the very core of him.Bill is the author of the highly acclaimed Five Moons Series of science fiction novels and, if you are up for a real walk on the mystical side of science fiction, then you just have to read his Tales of the Green Jinn.

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      Life 2.147 - Bill Parker

      Life 2.147

      A Short Story

      By Bill Parker

      The creator of

      Five Moons

      Copyright © 2015 Bill Parker.

      All rights reserved.

      Chapter 1

      Life has an energy all its own. It thrives where no one would ever believe. It clings to the smallest toehold. It flourishes given any chance at all …

      They had come to Zari-Kut-3 over a year ago. Their mission: to examine, collect, catalog, and document a lost civilization that had once thrived on this planet. The team included twelve archeologists, six military specialists, and twenty-six androids for the manual labor. Zack was one of the newest models. He had been upgraded with ten tera-quads of backup memory, extra strong arms and legs and a full satellite uplink/downlink subsystem. With all of this, he still looked perfectly human except for the distinctive tattoos on the sides of his forehead. Jane Markett spotted him square up and laid claim to him as her own personal ‘assistant’. After all, she needed him for her own

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