We made it through! Juan was able to guide us right through the center of the hole. I knew he could do it. I have the greatest confidence in him. He's going to make a great spaceship captain someday. The only thing though, as we passed through the hole one of the four solar panels attached to the James Cook's wings scraped its edge. A warning light on the d...
*** As history would say: "See you later!" Watching the history unfold with your own eyes was, is and should be something incredibly gratifying. *** Many centuries must have passed between past and present, between what Lucian thought was space ferrying civilization of this kind, the one that takes you through the stars as if taking a sailboat out on th...
"Why is it on the entirety of the lunar surface, there's only two goddamn coffee makers?" The refrain – common in a workplace that had banned the more exotic nootropics since the year 2098 – broke into Lucas' concentration as he hunched over his workstation and glared at the spread of numbers. He lifted his head and saw that Teller, who was the head of the...
37. Justice Knowing that Rift 5 was that close to Earth, made Mark a bit nervous. Earth was his home and all that remained to defend the planet was the Earth Spaceport. Sure, it was a space-based version of an aircraft carrier, but it was simply a fighter base with pulse cannons, laser turrets and TRDs... it had no singularity drivers, which was the only w...
Captain Jerome Rogers sat in the pilot seat of the shuttlecraft. He put up with the teasing and resigned himself to letting people call him "Buck," in remembrance of the old T.V. show. The big difference between him and the show was the fact that his piloting the craft was real. The show had all those things that it had to have to work. Things like "Artifici...
"I sense a man!" Dalinda thought to herself. "I sense a real man!" This was, of course, impossible. On the space colony Iberium, that orbited Titan in the cold darkness of space, there were no men, only Vampires like Dalinda. You see, Iberium is a safe haven for Vampires. No human has ever set foot here. Only one thing could explain her feelings: they were,...
I wrote this sci-fi fantasy / romance for a geekette friend of mine. It is almost non-erotic and is a story of first contact between Earth and a distant planet inhabited by creatures so different from humanity that communication is impossible... until contact is created. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The following warning is probably not needed f...
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a young, teenage human girl who was given certain DNA inclusions into her basic cellular makeup that allowed her to hear from the unseen world. She was an illiterate peasant girl from the country side of a nation now known as France, on a planet named Earth. Embroiled in many wars for far too long, the na...
Before mankind could fly we gazed at the stars in wonder, dreaming of the day when men would stand among them. And finally with centuries of trials and errors a man was finally able to escape our green prison. We learned from our mistakes, discovered that the void beyond our sky was inhospitable, but still our species persevered against the impossible chall...
I want to record this now before time causes me to forget the details. So, while it is still fresh in my mind, I, Antoinette Marie, first officer of the Spaceship James Cook, begin this account of what happened. At least this is how I remember it. The first thing I should mention is that from the moment I arrived at my duty station on the bridge, I did ever...