A Swarm Cycle Story
Outpost series#3
This story follows directly on the events in Pickup In a Hurry. Follow James as he builds a family and sets off to spy on the Sa'arm
As far as he knew, Joe Granger was the only Terran being within lightyears, and he liked it that way. But one day at the market on Roku V, he saw something unexpected: another human. Stranger still, she was naked.
This is my love letter to Amanda Tapping, a goddess in my humble opinion. James and Sam get beamed to Thor's ship, right in the middle a rather, hard core fucking scenario. Daniel blinked and looked at Thor - “Actually, the Asgard have their own extensive mythology about galactic history. Thor, do you have any records of human cultural artifacts being… misinterpreted by other species?” “We have observed many human mating practices across your history. This one was… exceptionally expressive.”
In 2153 on Mars, neurocyberneticist Dr. Elara Voss questions her own humanity while entangled in a passionate lesbian relationship with pilot Lena Solari and synthetic companion Mira. Amid New Elysium’s fluid norms of intimacy, synthetic rights, and collective survival, their low-gravity nights of raw desire and tender doubt blur the lines between flesh, code, and love. A sensual tale of connection in the red dust.
Returning from an assignment, Rae and her crew encounter an unusual swarm of asteroids traversing the galaxy. Witnessing the destruction of a solar system by the swarm, they decide to investigate and discover that the phenomena is not natural and may very well pose a threat to the thousands of inhabited planets that comprise the Galactic Consortium.
A young man in his tweens is working his way up to pilot of a Starship by flying a space copter taxi between ground and orbiting spacecraft.
His terror of being helpless, makes him a control freak and determined independent from higher authority also makes him reluctant to accept responsibility for others and possible public censure. A misconstrued non-verbal solicitation of gifts, setting up a gift table, results in little gifts he can never forget.