In this sport Sci-Fi Christmas themed short story, the captain of the Dauntless, a deep space colony vessel carrying 120 human occupants to Alpha Centauri-B who were in asleep in their cryo-storage, is Holly Cringleman. [I don’t think of a better name Christmas name for this than the author has chosen.]
There’s no problem for Holly or her robotic companions, that is until sensors picked up another space vessel approaching them. After it got close enough, one of its occupants manages to inside the Dauntless, and totally surprises her for it had been Santa and his usual super bag of toys for all the children on board which he hadn’t delivered for the past nine years while the Dauntless has been traveling in space.
After they had a brief conversation Santa leaves with his usual “Merry Christmas to all...and to All a good night!” But not before giving Holly a gigantic scientific and technological surprise for Christmas, which was the next day.
For giving me [as I had my morning cup of Joe] and his readers, a delightful, original Christmas short story, I’ve given this book 5 STARS. ( )