Elsewhere, Chapter 16
"What've you found, Astra?" Roger stepped up to the central console and cocked his head at the terrestrial-looking planet in the holofield. The past three hours had zipped by once Astra had begun the series of educational vids to help Graham, the...
Harbinger, Chapter 7
"Huh. What's going on over there?" Arcee placed her tray on the table and stared at the Pretender sitting at a table on the far end of the row, by the corner of the fence surrounding the Groom Lake base. A half-dozen other Pretenders and an equal...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 10
"How's he doing?" Kolya stepped into the med-bay and found Lorkis on one of the beds with more than half his body draped over the end and coiled up. Ralissa sat on the edge of the adjacent bed and Cora stood at a nearby console, staring at the readouts...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 9
"Wait!" Kolya slowed her pace as Corwin turned to face her. "You said this guy wants to make an example of you. Does that mean what I think it does?" "Well, if you're thinking he's planning to kill me, then yes. He's killed people for a lot less."...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 8
"Kolya?" "Not now, Corwin," she snarled through clenched teeth. She kept her hands clamped onto the arm rests as the rover bounced over the terrain on its way back to the _Mae Jemison_, but could barely resist the urge to snap her arm out and slam her...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 7
"You guys okay?" Kolya paused at the rover's door and stared at Corwin, Zadra, and Lorkis as they sat in the passenger compartment. All three of them had been unsettled enough with the discovery of the_Vancouver_'s dead crew, but once they'd returned...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 6
"Still no luck?" Kolya leaned against the edge of a console and watched Ralissa's team poking at the controls and connecting instruments to interface ports. The flight deck had been illuminated only by everyone's helmet lights until Lorkis pulled a...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 5
"Okay, here we go." Ralissa pushed off gently and drifted through the open airlock door. Zadra and Lorkis joined them, followed by Kolya, Corwin, Dylan, Nishara, and Grishnag. Everyone tapped a quick burst from their thruster packs to accelerate them...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 4
"Hmm, what's this?" Kolya glanced around and took in the observation lounge - a long, curving sofa along the back wall, a row of tables across the middle, food and drink stations at the far end, a mini-bar at the near, and a huge window that would've...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 3
"Here's what we know so far," Ralissa said to everyone gathered around the circular console at the rear of the flight deck. "Thirty-one years ago, the Galactic Expeditions deep-space explorer ship EIS _George Vancouver_ vanished while surveying the the...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 2
"So," Corwin said as they walked across the docking bay floor, "where'd you learn to fight like that? Were you in the military?" "Nah. When I was growing up, some of my friends were learning martial arts for competitions, and I wanted to learn just...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 1
Kolya jolted awake with a shrill cry, threw her arms across her face, and almost rolled off her bed. She opened her good eye wide and whipped her head around as the last remnants of the nightmare faded away. Her heart pounded as she fumbled for the...