Also, for those of you who don’t yet own copies of the earlier books in the series, special countdown deals on the Kindle editions of both Vignettes of the Star Empire and The Core War and Other Stories are now running on Amazon.
Darkness Within, the third book of Tales of the Associated Worlds, is now officially released, in both paperback and Kindle e-book formats. It can be obtained here: Primarily set after the Core War, this book returns to the style of “Vignettes of the Star Empire”, with more nanofiction from the
The Kindle version of Darkness Within is now available for pre-order on Amazon, with delivery expected on December 13th, priced at $6.99. (The paperback, for those of you who prefer physical books, is slightly held up in processing, but should also be available shortly.)
After a troubled period in its development, I am delighted to be able to announce that the third book in the Tales of the Associated Worlds series, Darkness Within and Other Stories, will be released on December 12th this year in Kindle e-book and paperback. Pre-orders will be open soon.
Sometimes Athnéël’s random factors are kind. I grin like an idiot, staring into the hole my obliging drones have cut into the engineering bulkhead. Although, to be fair, that might be the oxy-tox. It’s there. It’s intact. A geodesic sphere wrapped in golden foil, glittering in the
(And now, we continue.) The bytescanner sings in my ears, a song of disconnected network segments, lost packets, and failed rerouting attempts, interrupted by the few remaining segments of the ship’s mesh still on-line in the hulk of the aft section. Few were major nodes, most were isolated, and
I frown at the vibration – almost a mechanical scream – of the reaction gyros against my back, then dismiss the thought. For certain, they are out of balance: holding this much mass on true means overdriving them, even if they haven’t been damaged by the collision. Nothing can be done;
ping ping ping ping ping Grid minus two, plus eleven. Negative ping response. This is taking too long. It’s been almost two of my three hours. And so far… ping ping ping ping ping Grid minus one, plus eleven. Negative ping response. …no sign of the cutter. Just some