Addison Alder
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Writer of Wrongs. Discontent Creator. Editor of The Gristle.
100% organic fiction 👋🏻 hand-wrought in London, UK 🇬🇧
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Baby's First Steps (Ending)
The ISS is oscillating, gently but constantly. I am tethered in the Soyuz descent module. It's docked at the far end of the Russian Zvezda module, mothballed and neglected. For decades since the 1960s, these old Russian ships had been our Crew Return Vehicles – our lifeboats – until SpaceX's Dragon programme superceded them.
By Addison AlderExclusive • about a year ago
Baby's First Steps (Part 5)
Baby was never a baby. When he first came online, in the labs at Delta Dynamics, his brain was fully operational. Not fully educated, but he could follow complex instructions, communicate clearly and pragmatically, and perform sustained logical and spatial reasoning – all flawlessly.
By Addison AlderExclusive • about a year ago
Baby's First Steps (Part 3)
I wake in my sleep station. The internal hum of the ISS is all around me. The air is stuffy and sterile – like normal. The canvas bags of our sleep stations have enough space to stretch, so I pop the tethers holding me in place and test my muscles, which feel stiff and debilitated.
By Addison AlderExclusive • about a year ago
Baby's First Steps (Part 2)
The tether pulls taut. My body jolts inside my suit as my drift is arrested. The steel braid anchors me. Inertia swings me gently around on the cable until my side softly collides with the fuselage. I haul myself back up the line, until I can wrap the fingers of both my gloves tight around the rails.
By Addison AlderExclusive • about a year ago
Baby's First Steps
Read my new sci-fi eco thriller set on the ISS – a complete six-part serial on Vocal Exclusive. My helmet clears the airlock and I emerge into the clarity of space. No dust, no smog, no particulates. The cleanest air on Earth doesn't come close to the purity of a vacuum.
By Addison Alderabout a year ago in Futurism
