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GODSWAR 1 – The Mask of Ares – Chapter 16

GODSWAR 1 – The Mask of Ares – Chapter 16 Chapter 16. Chaoswar. The word echoed menacingly through Ingram’s mind. On its own it was a silly word. War was usually chaos. Putting the two together was near enough a redundancy. But as every living being on Zarathan knew, had been taught, had read in […]

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 13

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 13 After a fair amount of cursing and ordering by Maartens, Challenger turned into the wind, keeping the ship relatively motionless. Jaeschke stepped back inside his sanctum, where the dials and instruments were already glowing. Maartens, for his part, leaned against the taffrail and squinted at the sky, which […]

At The End Of The World – Snippet 16

At The End Of The World – Snippet 16 August 14 We had a light day yesterday; we didn’t have to do anything other than move more wood to dry out for cooking and washing clothes. We don’t have enough soap, but boiling water does a fair (if brutal) job on its own. Problem is, […]

Battle Luna – Snippet 16

Battle Luna – Snippet 16 Under the Hill Michael Z. Williamson Engineer Andre Crawford skipped down the corridor, using the best gait for fast travel on the Moon. He always felt like a kid back in South Chicago when he did. It was fast, though, in the low G. He reached Control, the pressure doors […]

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 16

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 16 And that’s why I picked this spot. Marciano held out one hand, palm up.  Automatically, an RTO placed a handset in the palm.  Just as automatically, the general raised it to his face.  He saw the first puff of smoke from the lead aircraft, a single […]

GODSWAR 1 – The Mask of Ares – Chapter 15

GODSWAR 1 – The Mask of Ares – Chapter 15 Chapter 15. She rose from below the cliff in a glow like sunbeams on water, bronze curls tumbling across her shoulders, skin of olive-touched gold, a body as strong and tall as Urelle remembered her sister Kyri’s, and cradled in her arms was Ingram, staring […]

At The End Of The World – Snippet 15

At The End Of The World – Snippet 15 At the end of that very long day, we gathered in the radio house while the furnace in the remains of the primary processing plant got hot enough to cook dinner. But we couldn’t wait, because we were starving again. So hard-boiled penguin eggs were passed […]

Battle Luna – Snippet 15

Battle Luna – Snippet 15 Morgan had used her monofil to tether the bomb to something in her foxhole. Now, having reached the end of its leash — and having evaded all Uey attempts to block it — it was dropping straight down toward the Dunsland. The Ueys instantly spotted the unexpected threat. But it […]

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 15

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 15 San Juan del Norte, Cordoba When Tsarist-Marxism and the notion of the planned economy had finally gone under, in Volga, and the Cordoban government had lost its deathgrip on the breast and nipple of international socialist aid, the government had turned to the Tauran Union as […]

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 12

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 12 Chapter 7 The North Atlantic A thousand years before Gordon was born, and more than six hundred years before the date on the calendar, people had made the crossing that Challenger was undertaking now. Their boats were even shallower draft and their instruments were far more primitive. They […]