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The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 27

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 27 “You have before,” she said. He looked at her in surprise. “How did you know?” Goth did not say because the desperation, and hope of that passenger left a trace, a memory imprinted in this greasy ferrostone counter-top. Instead she said: “I got a message from her.” The […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 23

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 23 20: GALT The nurse bot brought Rachel another blanket and laid it over her.  Its mechanical voice said, “Can I bring you anything else?” “No,” Rachel said.  She didn’t like human-shaped bots, not even those manufactured by a Landry subsidiary.  In her penthouse, she permitted only cleaning bots, which […]

Eric Flint Interview with Melissa Dalton Martinez

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 26

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 26 She grabbed Mindi. “We have to go. Now!” And she hustled the startled young woman out. “What was wrong?” asked Mindi, once they were on the slidewalk and well away. “Just a feeling,” said Goth. “After the last time on the sheen clipper, I like to listen to […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 22

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 22 18: GALT Philip lay on a blanket hand-woven of rough juba fibers in a field of experimental crops at the edge of the university campus.  Stars glittered above him, impossibly high.  He couldn’t name any of the Galt constellations, so different from those of distant Polyglot.  Around him rose […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 21

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 21 17: POLYGLOT World government was never really either. Sloan Peregoy, seated as a not-at-all-welcome guest at the Polyglot Council of Nations, watched Council members file in, most of them a few minutes late.  Inexcusable — everyone knew this was a critical session for the entire Eight Worlds, even though […]

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 25

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 25 Chapter 9 Goth had one small clue, and a world to search. She knew that Captain Pausert’s mother had booked her ticket to Morteen, while the captain was in space as a Cadet-officer of the Nikkeldepain Space Navy. She’d sent him a message from there, saying she’d settled […]

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 24

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 24 “Them always go to where they can stay warm. You better take her with you. I ain’t going back with nothing, an’ my stash gone and my leg ain’t right,” he said gloomily. “What you have to do is get to your feet and lead us back,” said […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 20

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 20 16: GALT Jane’s soldiers brought Tara to Rachel’s apartment at the Landry compound. Her apartment occupied the entire top floor of the six-story structure five kilometers from Freedom Enterprises headquarters.  The building sat in the middle of the compound, surrounded by flowerbeds, moonthorn trees, and the bright houses of […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 19

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 19 14: THE ELEVENTH GATE Martinez gazed at the planet below, the unknown world beyond the eleventh gate.  His glimpse of lights along the coastline had been brief before clouds rolled back in.  But he had seen the lights; everyone on the Skylark and Zeus and Green Hills of Earth […]