More on The Milk Run

Yesterday, I gave you a teaser for the beginning of my next novel entitled The Milk Run. Well, today I want to give you a little more of the setting and the main characters.

Of course there is Aason Bierak, son of Rome and Rei, now 21 years old. Also along is Aason's sister Lupe who is 16 going on 30. However, as you can see from yesterday's post, she disappears in the opening paragraphs and is gone for three-quarters of the story.

The starship "star" of this book is Junior (MINIMCOM, Jr. actually) and also in attendance is a clone of OMCOM's library clone as well. The story starts out near Tabit, home of Planet OMCOM but quickly shifts to the Nu2 Lupi star system which was supposed to be the home to two habitable worlds. When Aason arrives, he only finds one which is puzzling.

That one world is called Hades by the residents and is very cold most of the year. The vegetation has adapted and the forest in which the denizens reside is embedded in something they would call a forest but it looks more like a pile of Jenga blocks to me. Here is an image of what sort of resembles this forest:



From there we move on to the "invisible planet" called Ay'den by the residents who happen to be intelligent, ambulatory plants.

The plant people, who refer to themselves as the K'val, have three stages of life. The first stage is the seedling stage. When they get large enough, they pull their "feet" out of the ground and become mobile. Later in life, they replant their "feet" and grow tall and willowy and resemble trees that can talk.

Also on Ay'den is a second class of creatures, based upon a silicon version of DNA. I wrote about these "living crystals" in a previous post.

I think that's enough spoilers for now. The only thing I'll mention is you get to meet Lupe's "cousin" who is also a starship named Fury. This particular ship is pink! So is her livetar. It's going to be wild.