Science Fiction Burkeswood, Buckminster: Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut: A Collection v1. 15 Dec 2025

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Story One: The Helmet That Won’t Come Off
A routine EVA accident leaves an astronaut with a helmet that refuses to unlock. As the station struggles to help him, they realise that something is very wrong.

Story Two: Amongst the Seed Memories
A long-abandoned biodome still breathes, still grows, and still watches, drawing a salvage crew into a place that never truly shut down.

Story Three: Meatgrinder
A burned-out line cook on a brutal space station gets dragged into the galaxy’s most rigged fighting arena after his only friend is taken by a syndicate that treats people as disposable assets. To survive, he has to outwit a system designed to break him, and prove that even in a fixed game, something human can still hit back.

Story Four: Beneath the Frozen Silence
A deep-field team lands on Pluto expecting silence and ice, then their drills bring up something.

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