title: Science Fiction, Compact Edition: Stories and Contexts
author:  Heather Masri 
description: <DIV><DIV><B>Heather Masri</B> is a full-time faculty member at New York University, where she earned her PhD in literature and has served as assistant dean in the General Studies Program, an interdisciplinary liberal arts program. Although her academic specialty is eighteenth-century English literature, she is a generalist with broad, interdisciplinary interests whose courses include literature, art, music, and film. <I>Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts</I> (2009) grows out of her popular seminar on science fiction and technology, one of a series of writing intensive courses shes taught on literature and critical theory. Her love of science fiction dates from third grade, when her mother read her <I>A Wrinkle in Time</I> while her father demonstrated the theory of tesseracts by making folds in the bedsheet. She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, and has been teaching science fiction at NYU since 1990.</DIV></DIV>
zlib_text: Command Decision:
  
  Project Gliese 581g
  
  Book 1
  
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  By S.E. Smith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  I would like to thank my husband Steve for believing in me and being proud
  enough of me to give me the courage to follow my dream. I would also like to
  give a special thank you to my sister and best friend, Linda, who not only
  encouraged me to write, but who also read the manuscript. Also to my other
  friends who believe in me: Julie, Debbie, Sally, Jolanda, and Narelle. The
  girls that keep me going!
  
  —S.E. Smith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Montana Publishing
  
  Science Fiction
  
  Command Decision: Gliese 581g Book 1
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Susan E. Smith
  
  First E-Book Published April 2016
  
  Cover Design by Melody Simmons
  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted
  in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic
  reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the
  author.
  
  All characters, places, and events in this book are ficti