Friday 8 January 2016

Continuing "Brake"

Continued from here:

arming themselves with knives from the galley, Banning and Togukawa proceed to crew quarters where they see and attack Andreyev who is armed and guarding a locked cabin door;

Andreyev fires his gun but cannot aim in zero gravity and is knocked backwards by recoil;

used to moving in zero gravity, Banning follows;

the recoil from a second, closer, shot throws Andreyev onto a wall from which he rebounds onto Banning's knife;

in revenge for Tietjens and O'Farrell, Banning stabs again, making sure that Andreyev is dead;

Togukawa shouts a warning and, with Andreyev's gun, shoots the cabin door open;

he recoils but knows how to handle it;

Devon, Nielsen, Bahadur, Castro and Vladimirovitch emerge from the cabin;

Banning informs them that they must still fight Gomez and Gentry, who control the engine room and all but one of the guns.

To be continued...

On previous readings, I retained just a confused image of a lot of fighting and killing in a spaceship.

(A linquistic aside: In The Snows Of Ganymede, Planetary Engineers visiting Ganymede are served a meal not by four armed men but by four-armed men. What a difference to the meaning a single hyphen can make.)

1 comment:

David Birr said...

Paul:
"What a difference to the meaning a single hyphen can make."

Like the humorous T-shirt I've seen, declaring that "Commas save lives." The example is the difference between "Let's eat, Grandma," and "Let's eat Grandma."