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Sorry for the delay in posting. Life gets in the way at times.
One of my readers commented a few weeks ago that it seemed I was pushing too hard on names changing on Mars. Too many seemed to be ‘risqué’ and I might be pushing the limit. I didn’t give it a lot of thought, since Al Steiner used similar names in his stories. Then I got to thinking. This story occurs roughly 130 years from now. Names change over time. My family arrived here in the 1750s and almost immediately changed the spelling of their last name. Why? This was well before Ellis Island, where immigration agents sometimes ordered people to ‘Americanize’ their names because they couldn’t spell the original European versions. Were my relatives running from their past? Or were they illiterate? No way of knowing now. Still, names change.
Discrepancy discovered. In Greenies, the Martian rail system was called MarsTrans. In earlier chapters here, I called it MarsTran. I have gone back and edited this and reloaded a few chapters. I also cleaned up another typo or two.
In any case, piracy is alive and well in outer space. All those space pirate novels I read when I was a kid have finally paid off! Enjoy!
I hope your Christmas was merry and bright, and I hope your Christmas wasn’t white. Snow on a holiday is a major problem!
I haven’t been able to be productive and do any writing lately. We are remodeling the kitchen and have moved everything into the living room and dining room. We are living off an electric skillet, a countertop microwave oven, and an easy-bake oven. Every half an hour I have to answer questions, everybody in the crew has an incredibly loud phone ringer that goes off every ten minutes, and I now know their life stories. It should be finished sometime in either the spring or summer, but I am not sure which year. My wife is going as crazy as I am.
Anyway, Mars and WestHem are moving closer to war. I’ll be turning voting on sometime next week. Enjoy!
I learned about another few typos of the who-whom variety. Fixed. Thanks.
Interesting comment on the story. Most have been pretty positive but every once in a while you get one that makes you scratch your head. “I usually like your stories but "Martian Justice" is just too trite!” Not sure I would ever have considered it trite. According to Merriam-Webster: “hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original” Oh well, another fan lost.
As a Christmas present, I am posting two chapters today. Enjoy!
Our intrepid spy visits the ghetto. Hilarity ensues! Enjoy!
As always please keep an eye out for any typos. Thanks.
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