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    Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story
    Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story
    Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story
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    Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Sometimes the elderly can make a real difference when given a chance. Captain Brian Saber must recruit a ninety-one-year-old discredited scientist to help save all of humanity from a deadly attack by aliens deep in space. Science fiction with a human touch.

    USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith has writer of over a hundred novels and at least that many short stories. He has written thrillers, fantasy, and science fiction, including many Star Trek novels for Pocket Books and the only two original Men in Black novels for Bantam Books. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch he wrote the acclaimed 10th Planet series for Del Rey books.

    He has published a number of other Captain Brian Saber stories and will be coming out with a collection of the Saber stories later in 2011.

    If you liked “Hand and Space,” you also might like the following stories in different series:
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateFeb 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458007971
    Hand and Space: A Captain Brian Saber story
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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      Hand and Space - Dean Wesley Smith

      Hand and Space

      A Captain Brian Saber Story

      Dean Wesley Smith

      Hand and Space

      Copyright © 2012 by Dean Wesley Smith

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Cover Design copyright © 2012 WMG Publishing

      Cover art copyright © Luca Oleastri/Dreamstime

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      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

      This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      Chapter One

      Dot was feeding me my applesauce one spoonful at a time when I saw him.

      Around us, the Shady Valley Nursing Home went on with its normal lunch routine, but today was going to be anything but normal. In fact, the survival of the human race might depend on what happened next.

      Dot and I had a signal for when I wanted her to stop, so I blinked my right eye and she instantly pulled back, taking a napkin and wiping the drool from my chin.

      Being eighty-eight was bad enough, but being mostly paralyzed from a stroke really sucked more than I could ever say. Thankfully Dorothy Dot Leeds made it bearable.

      She was my best friend and fiancé. Down the road a few years we might even get married, settle down, have a few kids.

      The stroke when I was eighty-five had taken most of my movement, but not my mind, and I could still speak softly. I blinked twice and Dot learned in close, her wonderful, eighty-seven-year-old face still showing the signs of the beautiful younger woman I knew so well.

      What is it, Brian? she asked. She turned her ear slightly so she could hear me over the noise of the lunchroom.

      "Doctor Jack Dalton, sitting at

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