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    Diane, Bootstrap
    Diane, Bootstrap
    Diane, Bootstrap
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    Diane, Bootstrap

    By Christian Exenberger

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    Diane is the guardian of the vessel E.S. Horizon, but things are not quite as they should be. There is a two century gap in her memory, her space suite seems to be optional and everyone is looking at her strangely. But she has a job to do, and she will do it no matter what. When they start using her as a handyman she decides to find out what is going on, and she is probably going to make someone pay for keeping her in the dark. But she still can't remember anything...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Exenberger
    Release dateMay 5, 2016
    ISBN9781310636059
    Diane, Bootstrap
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    Christian Exenberger

    Christian Exenberger was born in South Africa, where he has lived for most of his life; except for a few of his early years, when he was very young and couldn't even count yet, and lived in Austria. He moved to Australia in 2016, where he lives near the sea with his wife and children, and where he was able to ditch the drudgery of work for a while, and indulge his ambitions to write.His lifelong passion for science-fiction began early in life, around the time when he was learning to count, and when the buzz of the first moon landing was still fresh in the world's memory. He grew up on a diet of Asimov, Clarke, Price and L'Amour; Sci-fi, adventure, and shooting bad guys at noon.Christian would probably have become a scientist if he wasn't such a dreamer. But every interesting fact he learned, held the potential to take him on an adventure, somewhere deep into his daydreams. And when the lessons were boring he was sure to be M.I.A as well. He still wonders how many of his teachers, who barely noticed the attentive, well behaved boy sitting quietly in the front row, realised that they might as well have marked him absent most of the time.So he became a software developer, a curse which has kept him too busy to spend much time writing... until now. His style is hardcore science fiction, taking a few small liberties with the science for the sake of the fiction.Christian writes near future science fiction, which seems as though it would be nearly possible to achieve with technology as it currently is. Nearly, but not quite. He also enjoys throwing some erotica into the mix, whenever it's appropriate to the story while trying to bring the reader into the character's point of view, to experience the story from the character's point of view.Christian's first full-length novel, The Gantry, released in July 2016, started life in 2001. Written in the gaps between job, wife and kids, it finally had the words "The end" added to its pages in 2012. Four years later, after long hours of arduous polishing, Christian has turned it into something someone might actually want to read.

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      Diane, Bootstrap - Christian Exenberger

      Diane, Bootstrap

      Christian Exenberger

      Published by Christian Exenberger at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Christian Exenberger

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      Bootstrapped

      Crashed

      Rebooted

      Defragmented

      Benchmarked

      Infected

      Deprecated

      By the same author

      About the author

      Bootstrapped

      Diane guided the speeding rocket pack through the cargo doors of the interstellar vessel E.S. Horizon, and out into space. The rust patches on the walls of the cargo hold caught her eye and she wondered when that had happened. It would take at least a hundred years for that much rust to build up. The Horizon was a brand-new ship and her launch ceremony had been three weeks ago. She smiled to herself, remembering how proud she had been when she boarded the vessel as ship's guardian.

      The vista of space opened before her as she cleared the cargo doors, and triangulated her position from the visible stars. They were on course 7.51274 years out from Earth, headed for Epsilon Eridani at 0.5127 times the speed of light, but the date was all wrong. By her calculations, it was at two hundred

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