Boy
by Des Greene
A moving short story. Set in the grim world of early Sixties Ireland, it tells the harrowing story of a boy making his way to school. Beware - this is not for the fainthearted!Doctor Samuel Louiston was a dead man. At least he would be if the thugs from the Cranston Corporation caught up with him! But when Randal McNally, a covert agent for The Company and the Inner-system Navy, shows up...things really get crazy! Together, Louiston and McNally must discover why hundreds of comet-haulers in the Oort cloud are disappearing along with their loads. That is, if they can avoid the battle-cruisers of the Sector Patrol! Join Doctor Louiston, Randal McNally and beautiful Claire Cranston on a wild joy-ride that uncovers a fantastic plot threatening the entire Sol system and defining the future of Mankind itself! Sci-Fi noir.