Stories tagged with "red spot"
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The Last Roughneck Sees the Problem
by uselessness about 1 year ago
The mess hall comes alive with shouting as it lurches again, the entire dome tilted 30° and preparing, maybe, to slip some mo…
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The Last Roughneck Unwinds
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Personally, I’m a beer man. Today, the commander hands me a dark Merlot and I won’t refuse it. The wine aged well over the ye…
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The Last Roughneck Reports In
by uselessness about 1 year ago
If my cabin feels a bit claustrophobic, the mess hall is quite the opposite. Undoubtedly the most relaxing place on Turbine S…
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The Last Roughneck Suits Up
by uselessness about 1 year ago
I wake up on a small but very comfortable mattress in one of the station’s cabins. It would seem this is my new bedroom. My h…
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The Last Roughneck's Welcome
by uselessness about 1 year ago
I can hear the storm raging outside but it sounds more distant now, muffled. Have we arrived? Surely we’re not in the station…
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The Last Roughneck Descends
by uselessness about 1 year ago
The darkness in this car is relentless. Not that I was expecting a limo ride to my new job, though being strapped to the wall…
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The Last Roughneck Makes a First Impression
by uselessness about 1 year ago
“Have you ever worked a wind harvesting operation before, Stanton?”
“No sir. 25 years on a rig off the North Slope, Alaska.”...
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The Last Roughneck Enters the Storm
by uselessness about 1 year ago
We’ll be descending to the power station in a glorified cable car, an insulated pod riding on carbon nanotubes. It’s a rectan…
