Walking to Aldebaran Author:Adrian Tchaikovsky Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky — My name is Gary Rendell. I?m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, ?astronaut, please!? I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. — I got lucky; when a probe sent out t... more »o explore the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.
I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.
Now I?m lost, and alone, and scared, and there?s something horrible in here.