The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XI

Ten Three weeks later, Tarbos, a maintenance warehouse, 2AM local time Tarbos nights were uniformly dark, since the planet’s one tiny moon reflected almost no light.  This made clandestine meetings all the easier. “You brought the progress report?” “Yes. ...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part IX

Eight Tarbos, the Main Conference Hall Mike sat in the audience, watching the President of the Republic of China drone on about China’s role in Earth history.  He glanced down at his sparse notes; he was next up to speak, preceding Harvey’s Assistant Project...

Semi-notorious local political gadfly and general pain in the ass. I’m firmly convinced that the Earth and all its inhabitants were placed here for my personal amusement and entertainment, and I comport myself accordingly. Vote Animal/STEVE SMITH 2028!

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part VII 

Six The Star of Carolina, in transit “Did you ever imagine anything like it?” One of the Star of Carolina’s outstanding features was its observation bubble, a large poly-steel blister on the outer hull that offered a slowly rotating view of space – or, in this case,...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part V 

Four High Earth Orbit An enormous disk of a ship coasted slowly towards high Earth orbit.  A slight glow of a Gellar drive under one-quarter power slowly edged the enormous disk into the parking orbit recently vacated by the passenger liner Star of Carolina, just...

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part XXII

Twenty-One Outskirts, at sunset Mary Lenell was just walking back from Outskirt’s tiny mercantile towards the cabin on the north end of town that she shared with her security officer husband when she heard the buzzing sound. She looked up from the red dust of the road...