Category: Science Fiction

  • Excerpt from Building The People

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072J6YML1 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxA Good morning my love! Her message came, Peyer just called me from Bolthole.  Tratruoh and Melise have arrived.  They should be arriving tomorrow morning. Looking forward to seeing them again, even if it’s only for a few days.  We’d be introducing them to the locals, preparing the way for…

  • Excerpt from Preparing The Ground

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 There were three ships above us, size four small cruiser hulls.  Interrogatory said that they were Imperial military.  In Technical, “Civil vessel Golden Hind, you will come to rest in an unpowered two isquare orbit and stand by for boarding!” spit out of the tachyonic set.  The distance was…

  • Character Interview: Joseph Bernard in Moving The Pieces

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa I’m Joe. Husband of Asina, father of three adult children we don’t get to see as much as we’d like 2.Tell us where and when were you born I was born in Virginia Beach while my father was stationed there, but don’t remember it at all. About two ififths…

  • Excerpt from Working The Trenches

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYH3K08 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4jwA1o Fulda was several thousand kilometers to the north and east.  Where an Earther like me would say Sumabad was about forty-five degrees south latitude, Fulda was just north of the planetary equator.  Sumabad had a warm, wet climate that was sometimes muggy but usually pleasant.  Fulda was roughly ten…

  • Excerpt from A Guardian From Earth

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQTL7XY Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/b5MvQ7 The dog perked up.  Papi was parking the car.  I gave Riley a one last scritch beneath the chin, and stood up.  Time to face the music.  I put the “pocket” in my bag, next to my hand blaster.  Aurora I left wrapped in the closet behind two closed…

  • Excerpt from The Man From Empire

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLKNXU Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxJ No matter what the song says, it does rain in southern California.  All the damn time in March of El Nino years. The most recent storm had finished blowing through earlier that evening.  I didn’t like working after dark, but the compliance reports just couldn’t wait any longer.  My…

  • Rediscovery Series Overview

    The basic idea of Rediscovery is a reverse ‘rabbit hole’. Instead of the protagonist falling through a rabbit hole and finding the place of adventure, our protagonist meets one of them who finds us – and it turns out some undesirables from their society have been here a long time. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLKNXU Books2Read link:…

  • Excerpt from Measure of Adulthood

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood.  There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show.  My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years.  The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…

  • Excerpt from The End Of Childhood

    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP Our own lessons complete, the boys and I moved to the side in order to watch Asto’s splinter take on his grandfather’s.  Asto was seven years younger than I was, but he’d been learning from his grandfather since he was old enough to hold the lightest practice blade, and…

  • Excerpt from The Price of Power

    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…