Steve Vance The Asgard Run (B)

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Roger Griffin s lifetime dream lay before him. He stood within an imniense interslellar vessel that had lain be-neath the Wyoming mountains for millennia. It had re-niained a viriually impenetrable fortress to the scientific teams that prowled its two-mile-long exterior-until ihe> nianaged to pry open one door.

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Then the dream of scientific discovery became a hor-rific nightmare as an earthejuake awakened the long-dormant brain of the malfunctioning spacecraft-and rocked the door shut. Griffin and his feilow survivors frantically tried to escape. but the ship s Computer took steps to rescue itself and exterminate the humans on board.

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Suddenly. the newly awakened control r(K>m displayed a clock for its terrified inhabitants to see. Its lights blinked on and off. but the message was elear:

SL\ hours until lift-off.

SLx hours to live.

Sbc hours to die.