Time to relax, it's been a long day... ------ Chapter 17 Whips jolted awake as a loud, strident beep! beep! beep! sounded from somewhere above him. That was the camp alarm! Something was coming through the perimeter! The night of Lincoln was, by Earthly standards, pitch-black; even if one of Lincoln's two moons had been up, they were too small to shed very much light. But Whips' ancestors were from the utterly lightless sea of Europa, orbiting Jupiter in the farther [ Continue reading... ]
Castaway Planet: Chapter 14
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Sakura was safe now, time for a little aftermath and a discovery... ------ Chapter 14 Whips wallowed his body back and forth, feeling the coral-based sand squish reassuringly under him. "Hm. That will be good." It had been quite a while since he built a land-nest—years ago, when he and his father had gone on a camping trip with the Kimeis, and that was long enough that he'd had to think about just how you did this right. His first attempt, about three [ Continue reading... ]
Castaway Planet, Chapter 5
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They had set their sights on a distant star... ----- Chapter 5 The unnamed star glowed before them, a visible disk, as LS-5 came out of the Trapdoor Drive. Now the next cycle of worry begins, Whips messaged to Sakura, who gave a tense, wry grin. Finding a good star was excellent luck… but we cannot live on a star. Yeah. But let's take one problem at a time. He saw her shove the worries out of her mind and concentrate on trying to figure out their location. We're already [ Continue reading... ]
Castaway Planet: Chapter 1
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And now a new adventure begins in the universe of Boundary, some considerable time in the future... ----- CASTAWAY PLANET By Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor Chapter 1 Sakura Kimei lay as still as possible on the set of pipes, listening for the creature's approach. It could be very near. She gripped the weapon in her right hand and steadied herself with her left, trying to breathe as quietly as possible. Not for the first time, she was grateful that she was still "skinny as a rail," as her [ Continue reading... ]
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