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Long ago, an incredibly powerful ancient alien civilization terraformed the Galaxy into their Garden. They had the ability to tear open holes in the fabric of space itself and build an interstellar subway network of wormholes, complete with worms inside. Their technology seems like magic to us now. READ MORE
Coda: After Working Hours
The Assistant plopped a sad-looking bowl of goop onto her tray and sighed. Choices at the TPL cafeteria weren’t very appetizing, pretty much like choices at any cafeteria in the galaxy.Wilted salads. Suspiciously perky fruit salads that tasted slightly of fermentation. Steaming trays of mystery meat in mystery sauce in an array of mystery flavors: dark brown, that unsettling cream of mushroom color, dark [...]
Another Working Day – PART THREE
A few brave warships had chased the asteroid and opened fire after the tragedy on the space station. Their fire did nothing. If anything, each impact made the artifact’s mesh glow brighter. “Ma’am… we have to stop it.” Bunten was pacing again. “What if we give the location to a different Clave member?” The Assistant was horrified. “Oh no, ma’am! I don’t think [...]
Another Working Day – PART TWO
“He?” the Assistant said numbly, staring at the dish. The purple blob wriggled, and opened an eye, looking right at her. “We’ll tell you whatever you want,” Karl said hurriedly. “Yes, Commissioner!” Sal agreed. “Wouldn’t want to get Glorb here mad.” “Glorph?” the Assistant said weakly. “Sorry, yes, Glorph,” Sal said apologetically. “Just don’t let it… uh, him, touch me. Or us.” “Why?” [...]
Another Working Day – PART ONE
The Assistant let the vibroladder slide her across the filing screens, half a story up from the floor. Under her fingers the screens scrolled by, her thick nails going tick tick tick at each one. Behind each screen was an entire filesystem, and under the filesystems a giant computer system, and for all she knew, more than one.The business of the TPL’s Department of [...]
STAYING GROUNDED – PART THREE
Image credit: Waboba (SHAPE) Now: Commisioner’s Bunten’s new Gertan aide has long forgotten she was taking notes. “So… Tír na nÓg is out there somewhere?” Clere shrugs. “How would I know? Some say, is all.” “And Commissioner Duvane actually knew what happened to the Old Ones?” Clere suddenly feels very old and tired. “Does it really matter? This was, what, hundreds of years ago? [...]
STAYING GROUNDED – PART TWO
Photo by LericDax PART TWONow:“So it’s true, then, that the Fae had no homeworld? They lived on Servitor ships?” The Gertan girl – she seemed so young! – looks at Clare quizzically. “Or… I guess that means they lived in Servitors? Since the ships are Servitors?”“Not all of them. Well, some of them – like Bram – believe that they came originally from the magical [...]
STAYING GROUNDED – PART ONE
Photo Courtesy of Leric DaxNow:Clere sits on the marble bench in the echoingly large marble-and-bronze Grand Hallway of the Transplanetary League headquarters. Her hands are clasped between her knees as she leans forward, elbows on her thighs. Her eyes are fixed on a point somewhere miles past the wall she is staring at.That wall is covered in a huge bronze frieze. Central to it [...]
INTERDICTED
Durrast grunted as he turned over one more rock. One more of ten thousand around him. The greenish sunlight filtered down through sandy haze blown up by a recent sandstorm, and grit was getting in his eyes. He wiped them tiredly, then wiped his hands clean on his budding horns.Nothing under the rock this time, not even giant scuttlebeetles. Still squatting, he sighed, then [...]
TIMURR DRAWERMOL’S COMEBACK NOVEL
Timurr Drawermol, former best-selling author, leaned back from the table and belched. Above him, fans lazily circled like orbiting moons and failed to beat back the humidity of the tropical world of Gaiamar. The tavern in which he sat was done up to resemble the beach town bars of his long-lost Rowwsia, home world of all the Elioni, but on this world he [...]
CLERE’S STORY, PART 2
PART TWOThen:Clere, like everyone else in the crowded urgent care office, was staring at her phone. The video was all anyone was watching, over and over again. At first people thought it was just a great viral video hoax. But verification kept coming out from space agencies and astronomers, newspeople and governments: all saying it was true, true, true. We weren’t alone in the [...]
CLERE’S STORY, PART 1
PART ONENow:Clere floats. Her suit keeps her warm; one scant breath away lies the vacuum of space, safely on the other side of her clear visor. Above her is the infinite sky, cloudless and airless, of a barren ice moon by night. It holds countless stars, a spread of jewels across a profound black that is deeper than any ocean. From where she is on [...]
