Buckle into your spaceship and prepare for a bumpy liftoff! We’ve got astronauts!!! Planets!!! Aliens??? And so many mysteries to unravel in my upcoming Kiribaku sci-fi piece, Six Degrees of Freedom, featured in the digital anthology, @lionheartkrbkzine!
Eijirou brought his hands to his head and groaned. Waking up from cryosleep was always nasty business, but he’d gotten used to it after being put under a few dozen times. Back home, it had been a controlled process, with a whole crew of scientists monitoring him as the cryochamber systematically thawed him and woke him up in stages.
But this time, the ship had overridden that process, thawing him much too quickly and forcing him awake to flashing lights, a blaring alarm, and the words “HYDRAULICS SYSTEM FAILURE’’ blinking red on the piloting screen. He’d had no choice but to pilot the ship to the nearest planet, through an unfamiliar atmosphere, before crashing and then stuttering to a halt on rocky terrain.
Hopefully, this was the right planet. A nice, inhabitable planet. One with air and water and optimal atmospheric conditions.
