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    Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Archangel Project, #1
    Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Archangel Project, #1
    Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Archangel Project, #1
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    Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Archangel Project, #1

    By C. Gockel

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    Sometimes intelligent life is right in front of your whiskers.

    Hsissh is a member of The One. There are some newcomers to The One's homeplanet. They call themselves "humans," and they are, frankly, mentally deficient--they can't warp the quantum world with their minds. However, Hsissh is becoming attached to one of them, a Miss Noa Sato. 

    When The One decide they will wipe out the humans and Noa's life is on the line, Hsissh is forced to take sides ... he might find intelligent life where The One least expect it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. Gockel
    Release dateMay 12, 2016
    ISBN9781533799197
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      Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe - C. Gockel

      1

      What Little Werfles are Made of Little Werfles are Made of

      … cells are made of proteins, proteins are made of molecules, molecules are made of atoms, atoms are made of particles … And do you remember what those are made of?

      Waves, Third One!

      Yes, you are waves manifest as matter. You can become waves again at any time.

      Sliding down the embankment, his ten legs not able to lift him, Hsissh reprimanded himself, Next body, no sleeping in a field frequented by lizzar. He knew better, but the rock had been sunny and wonderfully warm. And then one of the clumsy, wave-ignorant oafs had whacked him with its tail. Now this body was beyond reasonable repair and he had to move on. Finding a dry spot, he curled into a ball. Tucking his nose to his tail, he closed his eyes and … hesitated. He blinked. He didn’t want to let this form go … Shissh, his blood kin in her last life, had been urging him for years to give up this shell and the pain that was tied to it; to let his memories of their third parent become a dream.

      What’s that?

      His ears perked. It was the vocal utterance of a wave-ignorant Newcomer. Ish, one of the more scholarly members of Hsissh’s kind, had decoded most of the language and shared it in the waves. Hsissh hadn’t thought the Newcomers had spread this far north. He wondered what they’d found.

      A sharp pain in his side made his body uncoil with a startled squeak.

      Is it some sort of albino-mutant-ten-legged weasel? There was another sharp pain, and Hsissh was flipped over. Helpless in his weakened state, he lay sprawled on his back, all ten limbs and tail wriggling. Through blurry eyes, he saw three Newcomers standing over him. They smelled strange, like alien vegetables and meats partially digested and burned. Their naked bodies, where they showed at the edges of the faux furs on their heads and forelimbs, were disgusting. They looked smaller than he’d been informed; yet, even their shorter forelimbs were longer than his entire body. They could kill him by merely stepping on him.

      It’s a werfle, said another Newcomer, using the enormous deformed paw on a hind limb to prod Hsissh’s limbs. Their bites are poisonous. Don’t touch it.

      The poison oozing from Hsissh’s fangs could kill them with a single bite, but his body wasn’t responding to his mind’s order to roll over. And the pain was disorientating; he couldn’t focus enough to agitate the waves into starting a fire. A shadow moved. He felt a stinging in his chest and a soft squeal came from his lungs. His mind slowly processed that one of the Newcomers was jabbing him with a stick. Ish thought these beings were worthy of study … Obviously, Ish was an idiot. Hsissh felt rekindled determination to leave this body—when he was new and healthy again, he’d join the faction that was pushing to have the Newcomers wiped off The Planet.

      Huh, looks almost dead, said the one with the stick. He poked Hsissh again, and pain shot from every root of fur on his body.

      My mom says they’re really soft and we should make them into coats, said another, prodding Hsissh’s side so hard it sent him rolling. When Hsissh came to a stop, he tried to squirm, but pain shot from his tail as one of them stepped on it, and he clawed helplessly at the dirt.

      Too small to make a coat. Maybe a muffler? said the one that had kicked him.

      Hsissh closed all ten of his claws and reminded himself he was a wave. He just had to focus …

      Leave him alone!

      The pain in his tail vanished. He shot forward and was able to feel the waves that coursed through his body. Grabbing hold, he let them carry him up and out, changing the electrical impulses in his body and mind to a pattern of particles in the waves. Bit by bit, memories from every shell he’d ever worn and his current thoughts were encoded. He felt Shissh’s consciousness in the wave, and felt her speak. Finally! You should have left that hide ages ago.

      Not wanting to encourage her nagging, Hsissh did not answer. As the pattern that was Hsissh expanded out and upward, he was able to feel the scene in every direction. Above him,

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