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EarthCent Universe #6
Double Living
In space, early is on time
Bill takes another step towards his dream of opening his own café and Julie gets an understudy, while the Grenouthian director has his eyes on an award for a documentary about the settlement of Earth Two, made with help from the retirees of Flower’s Paradise. The nascent Human Empire’s School of Government is finally launching, and Samuel drafts his alien friends and colleagues to teach a seminar. The classically trained faculty members from Earth struggle to adjust to the realities of the tunnel network, and Ambassador Zerakova’s daughters find that teaching about culture is less fun than living it.
Bill takes another step towards his dream of opening his own café and Julie gets an understudy, while the Grenouthian director has his eyes on an award for a documentary about the settlement of Earth Two, made with help from the retirees of Flower’s Paradise. The nascent Human Empire’s School of Government is finally launching, and Samuel drafts his alien friends and colleagues to teach a seminar. The classically trained faculty members from Earth struggle to adjust to the realities of the tunnel network, and Ambassador Zerakova’s daughters find that teaching about culture is less fun than living it.
- GenresScience Fiction
242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2023
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About the author
E.M. Foner
57 books245 followersI wrote Date Night on Union Station while taking a break from work on a science fiction epic I've been struggling with for years. The goal was to cheer myself up and to find out if there is still an audience for a science fiction comedy that gets its laughs from dialogue and funny situations rather than from gross-outs and shocks. As many readers have pointed out, the EarthCent series could be rated PG under the old fashioned system, no bloodshed, no graphic sex, no four letter words. And after years of imagining a galaxy for my epic in which multiple human civilizations are at war with each other, it did me a world of good to write about a galaxy where most people are just trying to make a living and find some joy in life. I received so many requests to extend the Date Night universe into a series that I put aside my epic for an extended period to write a sequel, Alien Night on Union Station. The events take place five years after the conclusion of Date Night, and the plot involves a mix of business, diplomacy, gaming and family relations. As a bonus, we finally get to meet Kelly's mother. After the positive response to Alien Night, I wrote a third book for the series, High Priest of Union Station, which is currently in the editing stage and due out in mid-October. I just started a book that extends the EarthCent galaxy with a different mission and cast of characters, though they may intersect at some point.
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April 28, 2024
Schemings of Flower and others are telegraphed throughout the delightful plot; all for the betterment of humankind of course. Plenty of quips and a treatise on the foolishness of human (Western) economic schemes. Not the first time for the latter to appear in the series.
This volume is laced with quite a bit of extension pieces from the Bits of Anarchy book, much better integrated with the prose we've come accustom to in the delightful series comprising the EarthCent Universe of books.
This volume is laced with quite a bit of extension pieces from the Bits of Anarchy book, much better integrated with the prose we've come accustom to in the delightful series comprising the EarthCent Universe of books.
February 3, 2023
How can I describe the books in this series. First of all they are fun. They are not like any other sci-fi books I have ever read. They are not so much about laser blasts and battles as they are about people, from vastly different backgrounds working together to accomplish great things. In this episode, the sixth of the EarthCent Universe series, the characters are starting a new school of government and starting a new ship project, but with some cloak and dagger spy stuff happening behind the scenes. What's funny about this universe is all the spies seem to know about each other and work for the mutual advancement of their fellow beings. One take away from this is the members of the new human empire are struggling to understand the other empires who have all lived for millennia upon millennia at peace with one another. What a novel thought.
For me reading these books is starting to become like checking up on old friends. I look forward to the next book, entitled Bits of Flower. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I would definitely begin at the beginning at least of this series, at the very least read Bits of Anarchy (the first book in the EarthCent Metaverse spinoff series) before this one as it sets up some of the action we read about here. For best results go back to the very beginning with Destiny Union Station and join us on the journey.
For me reading these books is starting to become like checking up on old friends. I look forward to the next book, entitled Bits of Flower. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I would definitely begin at the beginning at least of this series, at the very least read Bits of Anarchy (the first book in the EarthCent Metaverse spinoff series) before this one as it sets up some of the action we read about here. For best results go back to the very beginning with Destiny Union Station and join us on the journey.
January 28, 2023
I'm lost!!
I have given every other story (book) in this series 5 stars! This one is no different, except for I am not able to keep up with all the new characters, and missing out on important events that I just don't remember reading about significantly I miss Sams mom being a central character! I don't remember when they (Sam& Vivian) got married !there was a character catch up a few years ago and I guess I need a refresher from it! I have
read the whole series but I think I've gotten out of order with these last spin offs! This rambling is the only thing that has gotten me down in reading all these stories! They are great,quirky, funny and a hope for goodness in humanity's future!
I have given every other story (book) in this series 5 stars! This one is no different, except for I am not able to keep up with all the new characters, and missing out on important events that I just don't remember reading about significantly I miss Sams mom being a central character! I don't remember when they (Sam& Vivian) got married !there was a character catch up a few years ago and I guess I need a refresher from it! I have
read the whole series but I think I've gotten out of order with these last spin offs! This rambling is the only thing that has gotten me down in reading all these stories! They are great,quirky, funny and a hope for goodness in humanity's future!
February 13, 2023
Another chapter in a great universe of stories
The plot is fast-paced and fun to read. I have enjoyed every book in the series and hope there are many more to come! While the human characters are generally the center of the stories, somehow the aliens always seem to know more about what is really happening.
The plot is fast-paced and fun to read. I have enjoyed every book in the series and hope there are many more to come! While the human characters are generally the center of the stories, somehow the aliens always seem to know more about what is really happening.
January 17, 2023
Book 6 in the series
Another well written story in this family friendly series. An interesting plot with something for everyone and a very diverse group of characters including a few humans. A great read.
Another well written story in this family friendly series. An interesting plot with something for everyone and a very diverse group of characters including a few humans. A great read.
February 4, 2023
i Enjoyed this but found it was a bit of a roundup on what was going on in the earthcent universe,
again some clever ideas, interesting Aliens and there life styles but it didn’t really seem to move the overall plot forward, Life on Flower seems to now be an industry leaving one wondering what the A.I. is actually working towards, i look forward to reading the next one….
again some clever ideas, interesting Aliens and there life styles but it didn’t really seem to move the overall plot forward, Life on Flower seems to now be an industry leaving one wondering what the A.I. is actually working towards, i look forward to reading the next one….
February 5, 2023
More good storytelling
Though the storytelling is light and fun the underlying complex issues are well thought out. I especially enjoy the tongue in cheek astonishment by the characters about our current financial system.
Though the storytelling is light and fun the underlying complex issues are well thought out. I especially enjoy the tongue in cheek astonishment by the characters about our current financial system.
February 6, 2023
Half a book
You'll find that Bits of Flower is awkward and disjointed unless you read this one in concert with it. Basically, Foner has written one book and split it in half. Not neatly, although this makes more sense than BoF. Not a good way to avoid recapitulation.
You'll find that Bits of Flower is awkward and disjointed unless you read this one in concert with it. Basically, Foner has written one book and split it in half. Not neatly, although this makes more sense than BoF. Not a good way to avoid recapitulation.
May 27, 2023
A long and odd series.
Foner writes an odd and complex novel. Business, education, school, cooking and all sorts of odd subjects are in this science fiction story. Buy the first three union station as a three pack.
Foner writes an odd and complex novel. Business, education, school, cooking and all sorts of odd subjects are in this science fiction story. Buy the first three union station as a three pack.
June 11, 2023
Not enough Flower.
I enjoyed this book, but there is a definite shift with this one away from Flower’s shenanigans and meddling with her passengers lives, and more onto the new human empire. It was still fun, but needed more Flower.
I enjoyed this book, but there is a definite shift with this one away from Flower’s shenanigans and meddling with her passengers lives, and more onto the new human empire. It was still fun, but needed more Flower.
January 18, 2023
Wow
Flower is really blooming! (Sorry, can't resist the pun) 😆 More business, more babies, more species, even more plotting and scheming.
Flower is really blooming! (Sorry, can't resist the pun) 😆 More business, more babies, more species, even more plotting and scheming.
January 19, 2023
I love the series but this book feels lite
Somehow the entire book feels too short. The plots barely sum from previous episodes. This feels like a checkov's gun
Somehow the entire book feels too short. The plots barely sum from previous episodes. This feels like a checkov's gun
January 23, 2023
Loved it. Highly recommend any of the books E. M. Fiber writes.
March 25, 2023
Always fun
I always look forward to more books from the author. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about the spinoff at first, but all of them are great.
I always look forward to more books from the author. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about the spinoff at first, but all of them are great.
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