Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 1.5) - "Dunsel" #Amalgaverse Over Robespierre's protests, Jack orders everyone to fall back to the bay.  You're abandoning ship. Once there, you're, about to board the puddle jumper, when you hear something from out in the corridor.  You throw a look to the open airlock. The ship’s battered utility robot peeks in, ducks out, then quickly clanks into the bay and stands there, making his presence known. “Hey, Dunsel!”says Milo, lighting up for the first time.  “Want to come with us?” “Out of the question,”snaps Robespierre.  “That rust bucket must weigh upwards of 60 kilograms!  An unacceptable risk.” “There is no need to mass shame,”says Data, coming to the little droid’s defense.  Then, he swings a look to Jack. What’s the call? A) Leave him behind.  Factor the cold equations: the extra weight makes the flight back all that much more difficult and dangerous. B) All aboard!  Give the little guy a lift and save him from going down with the ship Choose! TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission! See below for our Previously On recap - or check out the glorious Amalagaverse website: amalgaverse.link/index.html by @ugorur

Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 1.2) - "Sending the Puddle Jumper" #Amalgaverse You’re sending the puddle jumper.  You’ll need a pilot and someone who can bypass and shut down the cruiser’s anti-abduction shroud so that everyone can beam back and spare the jumper a fully loaded return trip. Who are you sending? A) Sheppard and McKay B) O’Neill and Carter C) Sheppard and Thor D) O’Neill and Data Choose! Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!

Today, I’m recommending four essential works by A. Bertram Chandler, a merchant-marine officer whose science fiction was grounded in the realities of shipboard life. Giant Killer (1945): This ingenious story follows a colony of intelligent, mutated creatures living in the hidden spaces of a spaceship, locked in a war for survival against the mysterious Giants. "The Cage” (1957): After their spaceship crash-lands on an alien world, its human survivors are captured by an advanced alien species and placed in a zoo.  This thought-provoking short story explores the challenge of proving one’s intelligence to a species with radical different ideas of what constitutes real thought. The Big Black Mark (1975): John Grimes,takes command of a starship crewed by misfits, only to face mutiny and a desperate struggle for survival.  Inspired by the infamous mutiny aboard the Bounty, this novel showcases Chandler’s talent for blending nautical adventure with space opera. The Rim of Space (1961): Chandler’s debut Rimworlds novel follows washed-up spacer Derek Calver, who joins the crew of the Lorn Lady to explore the remote worlds of the galactic frontier. Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy Mckee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stabelford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, and Eleanor Arnason.