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Trap Line

A Short Story

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Trap Line

By: Timothy Zahn
Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
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An engineer’s groundbreaking solo mission is rudely interrupted when he stumbles into an interstellar trap. The New York Times bestselling author of the Thrawn trilogy is back with a wholly original short story of first contact.

En route to far-off stars, Toby’s consciousness has a crucial mission: inhabit his clone long enough to repair a spaceship, then zip back to Earth. He’s done it a million times, more or less. OK, twelve times. It should only take a few hours.

Until he wakes up in jail. And he’s not alone.

His fellow prisoners: a cadre of alien soldiers. His prison: an ethereal boundary that will imprison their spirits until their bodies die. His jailers can’t even see him. But their pet cat (er, iguana cat?) can—and it’s got a serious case of the zoomies.

With humanity’s place in the odd and ever-widening universe riding on Toby’s choices, it’s time to saddle up for a ghostly game of cat and mouse.

©2025 by Timothy Zahn. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
First Contact Humorous Science Fiction Space Exploration Cats Short Story

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Interesting Scifi Short Story

Good story and environment for speculative fiction, kept me interested though the ending. I will check into listening to some more stories by the author.

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Brilliant Creative

What an excellent idea and execution of science fiction. This is the kind of thing that made me fall in love with science fiction in the first place, over half a century ago. Thank you, Timothy Zahn! 🤓

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Intriguing Story with a Unique Solution

I was surprised and delighted to see a short story from Timothy Zahn on Kindle Unlimited. As a huge fan of his Star Wars novels, I wanted to read some of his new work. This was an intriguing short story about a traveler who is caught in trap and how he works together with some aliens with a unique solution to the problem that helps everyone involved. Greg D. Barnett does a fantastic job on the audiobook version with a lively narration. Still hoping for more Grand Admiral Thrawn books in Star Wars, he is missed.

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Entertaining

This is a fantastic story about space age antics. Humorous and fun. I really enjoyed the characters.

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