A Swarm Cycle Story
When you take the girls out for Chinese food, remember to bring your CAP Cards. Just a simple pick-up story.
This is a stand alone story in the 'Vulcan Colony' sub-series in the Swarm Cycle Universe.
Just because his father was the leader of a military protectorate the others on the governing council want him dead. All his life he has been in hiding but when one finally finds him they get more than then bargained for. Now it is his turn to hunt and he has been training his whole life.
In a near future, DNA sequencing allows an accurate image of the future human based only on the genes in a fertilized egg. And a simple scan by a smart phone can determine the exact genetic sequence that a man or woman would contribute to a baby just then. Any man and woman meeting casually can visualize with great accuracy the baby they could create if they had sex. What would happen? What are the implications of seeing a person you could create?
After a direct assault fails, the Mind Worms find themselves a very special niche to occupy. Julie and Cassie are brought into the Worms' world amidst the ruin of their failed love lives.
A former space force soldier picks a new and colony to settle on. He finds he must take mates as he begins his new life as a trapper. The winters are both harsh and very long but the girls help him through it.