Dark Horizons
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Last published Sat, Oct 7, 2017
The New Horizons probe is about to make it's historic flyby of Pluto. With this kind of pressure the last thing that Dr Tressler needs is a group of government officials turning up to take over. Intrigue follows as the flyby gets closer and closer to it's culmination and the ending is not what anyone would expect... or believe.
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