Category: Empire Of Humanity

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…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP I didn’t particularly need to be involved in the older boys’ lesson, but it was a good way to be interacting with my kids without distracting them from their lessons.  I couldn’t help Alden or Imtara in theirs as they were beyond my learning thus far in what they…

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 Books2Read 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 jungle…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 Our actual departure from Earth had been pretty prosaic.  We’d used the old runway the shuttles used to land on in Cape Canaveral, for no good reason.  Imperial ships could take off vertically and safely from anywhere, with noise about equal to an electric car until you hit Mach. …

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYH3K08 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4jwA1o “Contract.  Study it.  We begin when you agree to the terms.” Yeriala was Primus for the district that included the residence.  She looked like a nineteen year old Goth girl; in fact she was probably a couple thousand years old.  I pulled the contract into my datalink and cross-checked…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HX6XEE8 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/mdN7Gl I announced myself to Helene and she invited me into her studio.  She was working on a voice project for someone else that day; she put it aside and sat with me.  “The first question I have to ask, Grace, is how territorial you are about the dog business?”…