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    Europa's Child
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    Europa's Child

    By Bruce Savage

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    In the year 2022 NASA decides it is time for a mission to Europa one of Jupiter's moons and a likely candidate for holding life under its surface of ice. Deep beneath the miles of ice is an ocean. An ocean that may be teaming with life. An ocean that holds the answer to the question of whether we are alone in the Universe. Is there life out there?

    Ken Reagan is chosen to head the science team for the mission and develop a spacecraft capable of reaching Europa and bringing back samples for study from the icy moon. He and his team work for years to develop just such a spacecraft and conceive every possible way that the mission can fail and prevent it. This mission must be a success for the price tag that is put on it. If it fails future missions will be canceled as funding will be withheld. Much is at stake for his team.

    A successful launch and years of waiting for the craft to reach Europa is cause for celebration for Ken and his team. But the celebration is cut short as all contact with the craft is lost. Something has gone wrong. Something was not foreseen in the planning. The craft is now on a direct course for the ISS and is unable to stop. A collision will occur and the ISS will be destroyed. The remains of the craft plummet to Earth and find their way to the most unreachable place on Earth. The Mariana's Trench. An unimaginable chasm that only a few highly trained and specially equipped divers have ever been able to reach it's murky depths.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Savage
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781370648054
    Europa's Child
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    Bruce Savage

    Bruce Savage was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1967, the youngest son of 16 brother’s and sisters to Winfield Strout and Blanche Strout. He published his first successful work when he was 10 years old in Boy’s Life magazine. The publication paid him $1 for a joke he wrote. So excited about his accomplishment and seeing his name published he pursued the art of writing for the next 40 years. In 1984 he enlisted in the United States Army and served his country in Germany. In 1999 he graduated from Columbia Southern University with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Systems. He held several positions with several fortune 500 companies until 2002 when he dove head first and full-time into the world of writing and publishing. Since then he has produced 11 novels and counting. Casualties of War was his first novel followed by Psycho.He is currently working on many other novels that will be available soon as well as the screenplay for Russian Games. He currently lives in Florida and the Philippines with his wife Julie and his daughter. He frequently enjoys making donations and contributions to ending poverty and supporting those less fortunate and he is an avid animal rights supporter.

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      Europa's Child - Bruce Savage

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents

      About Bruce Savage

      Books by Bruce Savage

      Disclaimer

      Copyright

      Quotes

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty One

      Chapter Twenty Two

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      From the Author

      About Bruce Savage

      Bruce Savage was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1967, the youngest son of 16 brother’s and sister’s to Winfield Strout and Blanche Strout. He published his first successful work when he was 10 years old in Boy’s Life magazine. The publication paid him $1 for a joke he wrote. So excited about his accomplishment and seeing his name published he pursued the art of writing for the next 40 years. In 1984 he enlisted in the United States Army and served his country in Germany. In 1999 he graduated from Columbia Southern University with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Systems. He held several positions with several fortune 500 companies until 2002 when he dove head first and full time into the world of writing and publishing. Since then he has produced 11 novels and counting. Casualties of War was his first novel followed by Psycho.

      He is currently working on many other novels that will be available soon as well as the screenplay for Russian Games. He currently lives in Florida and the Philippines with his wife Julie and his daughter. He frequently enjoys making donations and contributions to ending poverty and supporting those less fortunate and he is an avid animal rights supporter.

      Bruce Savage – EUROPA’S CHILD

      Books by Bruce Savage

      The Novels:

      GOD’S ASSASSIN

      NO MERCY FOR THE DEAD

      EUROPA'S CHILD

      RUSSIAN GAMES

      QUEST FOR THE TABLET

      ORIGIN

      SHORT SCARY STORIES

      PSYCHO

      CASUALTIES OF WAR

      KNOW YOUR ENEMY

      MORE SHORT SCARY STORIES

      For previews and information about the author:

      Visit brucesavage.com

      Disclaimer

      EUROPA’S CHILD

      By Bruce Savage

      Copyright © 2016

      EUROPA’S CHILD eBook Edition

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems without the express permission in writing by the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

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      ISBN-13: 978-1536883510

      ISBN-10: 1536883514

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      Quotes

      If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

      Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

      Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

      Arthur C Clarke

      All these worlds are yours…except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

      From the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke.

      Prologue

      We are all fucking dead! LITERALLY…I mean that. Dead as dead can fucking be. Extinct! I’ve never been more serious about anything in my life. Soon billions of people and animals all over the world will starve to death and those that survive will suffocate from a lack of oxygen. Massive storms are going to form all over the globe and rain hell down on everyone everywhere. And if anyone or anything survives that hellish apocalypse will be literally fried like a hot pocket in a microwave oven by solar radiation when the Earth’s atmosphere and ozone finally collapse and our sun’s radiation bombards the planet with massive amounts of radioactive particles. We are all pretty much…gonna…fucking…die!

      What took nature and evolution billions of years to create, nurture and accomplish will be undone in a matter of months. Not millions of years or billions of years but mere months. It will be a very quick death as far as the Universe is concerned. A blink of the cosmic eye if you want to think of it that way. First, every living creature in all of the Earth’s ocean’s will die from toxic poisoning. Whales, fish. crustaceans, plankton you name it are going to be poisoned and die. Which will in turn cause a massive ecological disaster. Without life in the ocean anything on land has very little chance of surviving. There’s a very delicate balance for there to be life on Earth. A balance once disrupted effects everything else like a domino effect. One by one ecological system's will collapse. While this oceanic apocalypse is going on massive amounts of methane will be pumped into the atmosphere from the death and decay of those organisms and in turn decreasing Earth's oxygen level from 20% at its current life-sustaining level to practically zero. Massive and I mean massive storms will start to build like the Earth hasn’t seen since the beginning of life on our planet due to the warming of the ocean. Hurricanes and Typhoons with wind speeds of 300mph or more will sandblast anything in their path leveling any city, town, village, forest you name it, it will be wiped out. Tidal surges from these massive storms of at least 1000 ft. will occur flooding and wiping out coastal regions. Say goodbye to New York, Boston, D.C., Hong Kong, Miami and any place else along a coast. Cloud cover will increase from 30% to 100% as the storms increase in strength and frequency shutting out any light from the Sun. It’s going to get cold as Hell without the Sun. All vegetation will die soon from this because photosynthesis will stop completely. Every tree, flower, and plant will wither and die from lack of sunlight and that means no more oxygen production, adding to the problem of ammonia

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