Tripping Through the Universe

by Jaide Fox, Shelley Munro, Ellen Fisher

Take a romp into a future gone wild.... Boldly going where no woman has gone before, four women sift through the rubble of disaster in search of love and passion.... Farthest The Wrath of Jan by Ellen Stranded on a remote planet with Captain Steven T. McNeill, the galaxy's biggest playboy, and facing deadly dangers that include starvation and large, hungry saber-toothed cats, Vaish's deepest desires should be survival and escape. So why do her desires seem to focus on how sexy her captain is instead? Earth Girls Aren't Easy by Jaide Rebel Earthling, Chyna Lin has just been "presented" the "opportunity" by alien King Darion Jatara to bear his children. She has two problems with that. One--he's a real ass. Two--she has every intention of escaping. Fully Functional by Ashley Shannon tests Gregg's new "smart" house and androids to get closer to Gregg, even though it's against her better judgment to trust the mad, if hot, scientist. Things get crazy when the randy butler android tries to prove how "fully functional" he is, the bots hold her prisoner in her own house, and they plot world domination. Only Gregg can save her--the same man who sent remote control cars crashing through her living room and caused her hair to catch on fire. Interplanetary Love by Shelley Ekim Ramuk, of the planet Nidni, is famous. Women are falling all over themselves to bed Nidni's greatest lover, but Ekim has a dark secret. He's a virgin. When a drunken impulse leads to Carly into signing up with a dating agency she's expecting the worst. Instead, she ends up with Ekim--a god on two legs. There has got to be something wrong with this picture... Contains graphic language, explicit sexual content, and violence

Genres: Ebooks, Romance, Anthologies

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jaide Fox has always had a passion for fantasy and the paranormal, having discovered both at a young age and devouring every book she could get her hands on, watching every movie that even hinted at her interests. It wasn't until she was in high school that her mother introduced her to romance--and she was hopelessly hooked.

Eroticism has never really been a part of fantasy, nor romance, and Jaide craved to see the two combined. Not able to find anything on the current market, she decided she'd write her own books to satisfy herself.

Jaide hopes readers will enjoy her first offering from NCP. She has many more novels planned and is currently breathing life into other adventures.

She lives in the middle of nowhere in a swamp, surrounded by all sorts of wild creatures (including snakes and spiders--which she gets rid of on sight!) and one mottled black cat who ambushes her from time to time.

Also writes Erotic Historical Romances under Julia Keaton and Celeste Anwar.

Reviews

[Julie (jjmachshev) · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Tripping through the Universe" is an anthology of four stories. None of the stories were bad, they just weren't good either.

Farthest Space by Ellen Fisher. A playboy Captain and his uptight second in command end up stranded on a primitive planet. Their relationship changes drastically as they both reveal their inner persons, but will the changes stick when they are go back to their real world?

"Earth Girls Aren't Easy" by Jaide Fox. A rebel is given the choice between death and providing a child for the sexy King of the opposition. Her efforts to escape her 'deal' result in torture by extended foreplay and denying her "release". <<>>

Fully Functional by Ashley Ladd. A sexy, young scientist uses his new robot creations to woo his dream woman. The robots rebel and mayhem ensues.

Interplanetary Love by Shelley Munro. What happens when the "Galaxy's Greatest Love" who is actually a virgin falls in love? With an earthling cop?

Like I said, not bad, but not really good either.

[Cindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

So-so read. Futuristic themed anthology with four stories and relatively little plot.

The first story is a series of in jokes [Star Trek, Galaxy Quest, and the Lensmen books to name just a few:] pasted together... Happiness ensues.

The second was perky earth girl thrown into the harem of the planetary king. She tries repeatedly to escape, they fall in love, happiness ensues.

Beautiful robots try to take over the world, inventor defeat them and rescues the girl - happiness ensues.

Bollywood-style actor makes his living as a sex star but is still virginal - meets girl of his dreams via dating service and happiness ensues.

[Don't you wonder how these guys actually accomplish anything when they spend so much in bed?:]

[Leslie Jane Fahrney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked all the stories, though I felt the authors developed the characters in Interplanetary Love and Farthest Space: The Wrath of Jan better than the other two. Of course, with the stories being short, there is only so much developement that can be done. Loved the computer in Farthest Space. He (it?) definitely has a pesonality of his own.

[Bette Pietsch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bits of humor were fun.