Category: Science Fiction

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a Ilras, quit trying to squirt your sister with ketchup.  The inverse square law is on her side. But mom!  I’m just trying to teach her defense!  Meanwhile, baby Imtara giggled in delight at frustrating her brother’s dastardly plan. Dear, even if she was asleep, she’d have plenty of time…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Boks2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Later, Asto and I were in our quarters.  He’s a tall, thin Guardian; the body type sometimes known as ‘hound’ on Earth.  Six feet six, broad shoulders, long legs, and thin as a whip, except for tiny little bulges here and there, intended to give him a reserve of…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa It was hard to believe she was gone. For over an Earth century, Sephia had been the commander of Bolthole Base.  She’d been the one constant, unchangeable thing about the mission on Calmena.  The base was four times the size it had been when I started, Calmena itself was…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK You play with fire, you’re going to get burned. Abraham Lincoln once observed, “Nearly all men can stand adversity.  If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”  It might scandalize my fellow Americans to say it, but Mr. Lincoln failed his own test by almost any…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072J6YML1 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxA The forges of N’yeschlass began their beat at dawn, every day without fail.  Things had changed since we began. The town had never been officially named.  The name had grown from the unofficial motto of what my wife and I and the original group of refugees cowering in the…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Boks2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 The view inside a time-jammer bubble is pretty. Not that the Imperials built ships with windows.  It almost defeated the purpose of having a hull, to leave a hole in it where radiation could get in or some random piece of debris could punch a hole and let your…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYH3K08 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4jwA1o We emerged into the middle of a multistory building, kind of an atrium without glass.  The light was artificial.  Around us, snowflake-like, six wings of barracks in six levels.  “This is Operant Training Barracks Two, your new home!  Each bay holds one section in three squad rooms!  The squads…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HX6XEE8 Books2read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/mdN7Gl I woke up to the thought that I can’t keep doing this. I couldn’t keep fighting demons like that solo. It wasn’t that I was getting old.  It was simply that I wouldn’t stand a prayer against a basileus or one of the uniques that could dominate even them. …

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQTL7XY Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/b5MvQ7 I woke up suddenly in the dark.  There was somebody in the room with me.  I heard Riley bark once, then go silent.  The shape of a woman resolved itself in the closet door.  It was dark, but she wasn’t much bigger than I was.  I grabbed for the…

The new characters that did not appear in The Man From Empire are mostly of the Scimtar family, descended from Osh’s father, who is one of the Empire’s most important leaders. Scimtar himself is one of those larger than life characters. He himself is big, an exaggerated speed build, even taller, but wider and more…