The most remarkable fossil is discovered inside a Wyoming strip mine. Nearly 60 million years ago, aliens buried one of their own.
This begins the transformation of humanity, and every life is touched in some critical way.
"Better than most, Mattie understood the temporary nature of life. This woman who had never before been stopped by the police earned three speeding tickets on the journey north. Approaching the mine, she slipped in behind an empty dump truck, driving almost beneath the rear axle, and because the only security guard happened to be relieving himself, she managed to slip undetected out onto the gouged, unearthly landscape. GPS coordinates took her to a pickup truck parked beside a blackish-brown cliff. The engine was running, a stranger sleeping behind the wheel. Beside him on the seat was what looked like huge, misshapen hands cradling a large golden ring. Two shotguns were perched against the far door. For a brief moment, she hesitated. But then she shoved her natural caution aside, and with a tap on the glass, Mattie woke the stranger, who was startled, staring out at what must have looked like a ghost -- this young woman with almost no hair and a gaunt, wasted face."
Robert Reed is a prolific author and an award-winner. "Before My Last Breath" is one of his personal favorite story.
Genre: Science Fiction
This begins the transformation of humanity, and every life is touched in some critical way.
"Better than most, Mattie understood the temporary nature of life. This woman who had never before been stopped by the police earned three speeding tickets on the journey north. Approaching the mine, she slipped in behind an empty dump truck, driving almost beneath the rear axle, and because the only security guard happened to be relieving himself, she managed to slip undetected out onto the gouged, unearthly landscape. GPS coordinates took her to a pickup truck parked beside a blackish-brown cliff. The engine was running, a stranger sleeping behind the wheel. Beside him on the seat was what looked like huge, misshapen hands cradling a large golden ring. Two shotguns were perched against the far door. For a brief moment, she hesitated. But then she shoved her natural caution aside, and with a tap on the glass, Mattie woke the stranger, who was startled, staring out at what must have looked like a ghost -- this young woman with almost no hair and a gaunt, wasted face."
Robert Reed is a prolific author and an award-winner. "Before My Last Breath" is one of his personal favorite story.
Genre: Science Fiction
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