Off Course (Short Story) [Kindle Edition]

Simon Haynes (Author)

Book Description

An alien fleet invades the wrong hole ...

Suddenly the roar got louder, and the men craned their necks to stare at the leaden sky. Their mouths fell open as a silver shape the size of a small house dropped through the clouds and landed neatly on the green, snapping the flag in two and pressing Tom's ball into the smooth turf. A rectangular crack appeared, and a section of the ship's hull folded out.  The end thudded down, biting into the turf alongside the closely-cropped green.
  A figure appeared in the opening, tall and well-built.  It could have been human, except for the pallid green skin and silvery eyes.  The creature lifted both hands to its head, ran its fingers through its hair and then looked at the approaching trio of golfers. Then it raised both arms, stepped onto the platform and spoke with a bellow. "Greetings, humans! I come in peace!"
  "Nick off!" shouted Tom. "It's seven years since I hit this bloody green, and you just landed that stinking contraption right on my ball!"

A 1400-word short story.

Product Details

• File Size: 88 KB
• Print Length: 9 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Bowman Press (November 13, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0067C65AY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,177 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Sports

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars It could only happen on a golf course,of course. December 30, 2011

By Stephen Dunchouk

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Neat tidy little snippet of how many players does it take to have a game.
Not only a game of golf but who's top of the commercial vidioscope reality sweepstakes.
Off world no less.
Hardened SF readers will get the story quickly .
I think it could have been a little longer as felt some of the characters just missed something.
None the less a nice little package . No cheats from me ,you have to read it .

More About the Author

Simon Haynes was born in England in 1967, and moved to Spain with his family in the mid-70's. He enjoyed an amazing childhood of camping, motorbikes, air rifles and paper planes. His family moved to Australia when he was 16.

After two years in an English-speaking school - which was a novelty after a Spanish-based education - Simon entered Curtin University, graduating three years later with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Creative Writing. In 1997 he returned to the same university, and graduated with a second degree in 1999 ... this time, Computer Science.

In 2004 Simon was writing his fourth novel when Fremantle Press, an Australian trade publisher, offered a contract for his first three books. They were published over a five-year period, and were distributed by Penguin across Australia and New Zealand.

Simon now has five Hal Spacejock novels, two Hal Junior novels and a dozen short stories in print, all of them available on Amazon Kindle.

Simon is the programmer and designer behind Spacejock Software, and is responsible for popular programs like FCharts, yWriter and yBook.

Hal Spacejock 5: Baker's Dough is his latest novel, released July 2012. Hal Junior 3: The Gyris Mission, is slated for a September 2012 release.