In this excerpt, Gori relates how he and his spaceship narrowly escape obliteration.

The fleet shot by me without changing course or speed. Only one small scout ship left their formation and made for my former position. It began to zigzag around my ship and finally fired a small tachyon particle beam near my position. The beam hit my rear deflector screen and caused the entire cloaking field to vibrate. It was the first lucky shot that the enemy had on my ship. Fear gripped me as the scout turned to make a second run at my ship. Another lucky shot and my cloaking device might achieve a partial failure in the rear screen. He fired his beam weapon and missed by a large margin. By this time, the cloaking field had recovered and we were invisible to our attacker.

I changed course slowly and the ship fired its next salvo at the wrong spot. It continued to fire at my former path and slowly began to head farther and farther away from me.

The scout then doubled back and resumed its wild and highly scattered firing of its deadly beam weapon. Suddenly, it got lucky and hit the lower right port side of my deflector screen. Again, the cloaking field vibrated and gave away our position. The scout ship turned and fired again at my position. His aim proved faulty and my deflector field resumed its natural frequency. As I disappeared, I slowly turned and then, after another minute, slowly turned back to my original flight path. The maneuvers failed to register in the enemy ship and it turned in the wrong direction. It began firing and failed to encounter me. After another twenty minutes of this wild firing, it left at great speed to rejoin its long-departed comrades.

We decided to convert Gori’s journal into an e-book and are delighted to be able to share it with our PAO community.

How many of us ever have the chance to read a book about space that is not science fiction?

We invite you to enjoy this unique journal. It is a treasure that cannot be hidden any longer!