Chapter 8
Saturday 03 January 2032
The Space Station bar was crowded but that was only to be expected. After all, it was Saturday night and the weekend. People could at last let off steam and cast off their cares until Monday morning when they’d have to clothe themselves once again in the mantle of responsibility and knuckle down to another week’s work. The bar staff flitted from side to side behind the bar, serving exotic cocktails to customers as they became bathed in the blue glow of a ceiling spotlight, signifying that it was their turn to be served.
Linda Black had arrived early. She was excited. It had been a couple of months since she’d been out on a date. She’d needed a little time to get over her last serious relationship, a passionate affair with a legal assistant named Simone
