Twenty-One The K-101 Kadastrattik XII was beginning to become impatient. He’d taken time for a meal in his quarters, and now bounded back onto his Bridge, barking at his Signals officer. “Signals, has there been any word from Lieutenant Akillistrak?” “No,...
Nineteen A warehouse on the edge of Mountain View His “contact” was tall, narrowly built and weird, and how he had learned English was anyone’s guess. But learn it he had. “I’ve been in contact with my superiors. We’re not at all pleased with your...
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Three Two years later: Challis. A light snow was falling as Mike guided his aged Ford into Challis, the large flakes reflecting the lights of the growing town, striking stars where skimmer headlights struck through the tiny falling crystals. Sparkles of light...
Two Armstrong City, Luna “Andrea, don’t just stand there. The checked bags have gone on ahead. There’s no turning back now. Jenny, have you got your stuff? Let’s go!” Paul Aggruder was more than ready to leave the Moon’s gypsum mining colony. Three years they had...
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Ten Barrett and her crew followed Gomp, who was tracking the pod of the Hive that had taken Amole and his men. The creatures had made no effort to cover their tracks, and when one group, then another, fell in alongside Barrett’s party and made no move to interfere...
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The Shade Tree Jean Barrett and Darrell Weems, Amole's "executive assistant," were overseeing the loading of the three cargo containers containing two small pre-fab shelters and various and sundry supplies for Amole’s fledgling colony when the call came down from the...
The Shade Tree “Now this is more like it,” First Watch Scanning tech Ophelia Watts announced. “This one is about 1.4 AU out from a large blue-white star, so it’s got a long day, looks like about twenty-nine hours, and a solar year of about four hundred and...