"A few hours before the ceasefire was scheduled to start, Captain Jarrell Dresdin and I dropped from low orbit on Aine’s night side, tasked with the final double-check. An armored dropsuit wasn’t enough to quell the terror of atmospheric entry, with only a...
Jay Werkheiser
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"Tethered to the main cluster, placidly I float in the lazy currents. Softly, gently, a colony-mate brushes against me. Our membranes touch briefly and fuse. Electricity. Instinctively, I extend a single pseudopod toward my neighbor. The texture I feel is...
"Instead of indulging in the festivities, I spent the evening evading Lamprecht, while Herschel evaded me. I had come to Bath not just to soak my body in healing waters, but to bathe my mind in new thoughts, to browse with the great William Herschel at the...
An alien hive mind encounters something strange and tries to understand it. The human colonists are even more clueless, even though they’re caught in the middle of a pending war.