Forum: Lost Stories

A few snippets that I do remember - Story starts on a colony ship, but I believe something went wrong and they end up at the wrong planet. Planet survey discovers that local fauna finds human quite tasty! I recall some sort of chase through grassland . The colonists find an escarpment with "tigers" ? at the bottom, they also find a track leading up to the plateau, and one or more "tigers" were climbing up.

The final snippet I remember is that the Captain receives a message informing him that some of the colonists were Anarchists and were supposed to take over, but the awakening order had been changed to make the leader one of the last to awaken. Leader gets killed by flying animal as he crosses a compound without a security party.

Does this ring any bells with anyone - I've spent a month searching to no avail :(

Regards G_R

no idea myself but sounds interesting and I'll be waiting for the answer :)

Sounds like Wes Boyd's Destiny, on his site not here.

The year is 2241 and geologist Arik Kalita thinks planet Earth is getting too crowded and too regulated, so he signs on with the next sublightspeed exploration ship to the stars, one aimed at a star eight lightyears away. Coldsleep technology will allow Arik, exobiologist Leticia Ozawa, and 20,000 others to arrive still young enough to experience a long life on a new planet. However, the new planet turns out to be airless and uninhabitable. There are time limits for coldsleep. Do they head back to an Earth 450 years in their future, or do they try for another star, knowing that if it is also unsuitable there might not be another chance?

IIRC. you can add stories from external sites to your SOL library