Star Trek: Lost to Eternity
{4.5/5} “Yet I remind you that we already have significant assets in play on Atraz, including a shuttlecraft, the rescue party, and Captain Kirk’s own demonstrated tenacity and resourcefulness. He has escaped captivity, and survived all manner of jeopardy, on more worlds than I have time to enumerate.” Star Trek: Lost to Eternity by Greg […]
Rift in the Sky
{4.5/5} “This ability we have will save more lives than it risks. Let the Oud reshape the ground. Sona will ‘port to safety. Let our crops fail. We’ll ‘port to another Clan and trade for food. This is the most important Talent ever discovered by Om’ray and we must never fear to use it.” Rift […]
Riders of the Storm
{4.5/5} “The exiles would change whatever Clan they tried to join… Sona offered what she’d never imagined — the possibility of living apart from other Clans, to be themselves, to risk only themselves. To become something new.” Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2008 Aryl and her fellow exiles are headed […]
Reap the Wild Wind
{4.5/5} “Runners dared go beyond where Om’ray were tolerated. Never to trespass on the Oud — no one was that stupid — but where no others would go… Runners weren’t of one family, or one Talent, though those with the ability to sense imminent change were persistently if quietly courted. They were risk takers, not […]
Dollhouse: Epitaphs
{4.5/5} “I’m used to being scared. I’ve been scared ever since my uncle got printed. But I killed people today. And now I feel like a bad guy. Just like the people who killed Uncle Wendall.” Dollhouse: Epitaphs by Andrew Chambliss, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen, published in 2012 When the apocalypse happens most people […]
To Trade the Stars
{4.5/5} “The Hoveny… had spread itself that far and possibly farther before its interstellar empire collapsed — around the same time Humans were four-footed shrews. Study of the Hoveny Complex was one of the most highly funded fields of research among Trade Pact cultures, given that newer species were determined not to repeat whatever mistakes […]
Ties of Power
{4.5/5} “There was, I granted grudgingly, reason for the Clan to be so desperate, to act with such disregard for individuals. It was at the root of every being’s existence: to have a living future. That, as Morgan would say, did not make it right. There had to be other choices, better methods. Some costs […]
A Thousand Words for Stranger
{4.5/5} “You have touched the M’hir. Part of our unconscious selves is always there, mingling on some level with all other living Clan, as the air on your ship moves in and out of all our bodies. The M’hir is inseparable from the Clan; it gives us abilities and strengths your species needs machines to […]
The Expert System’s Champion
{5/5} “Suddenly the Bandage-Men were fighting their beasts and taking their outcasts. And passing word from one village to another, and though that seemed the least of what we do, ten years has shown me it’s actually the biggest change of all. As the Order grows and prospers, villages will become more and more used […]
The Expert System’s Brother
{5/5} “We are cast out, all of us… See what that means? No lawgiver will come save you. No community will step in to provide for you or protect you, save that which we make together. Leave me and starve, if you will… Or stay with me and obey me, for to me is given […]