Kieran Shea 
Off Rock 

In the year 2778, Jimmy Vik is feeling dissatisfied. After busting his back for assorted interstellar mining outfits for close to two decades, downsizing is in the wind and his ex-girlfriend/supervisor is climbing up his back. So when Jimmy stumbles upon a significant gold pocket during a routine procedure on Kardashev 7-A, he believes his luck may have changed – larcenously so. But smuggling the gold ‘off rock’ won't be easy…

Circa l’autore

Kieran Shea is the author of the Koko series of science-fiction adventures: Koko Takes a Holiday and Koko the Mighty. He has been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice. Follow him on Twitter @Black Irish Blarn