They marked its position for possible recovery. Now the hijacked Nebraska was clean and silent once again. Two days later they surfaced eighty miles off of Fiji, in a place where wind and current would carry the lifeboats to the island. The sullen crew loaded the rubber rafts with plenty of food ...
He looked over the shoulders of his officers and could see most of their screens, which plastered the inside of the half-sphere with glowing displays. Despite all efforts to the contrary, the crew had taken to calling the CCC “the bridge” as if they were on an old-fashioned oceangoing ship connin...
By this he deduced they were even lower on standard food than they thought. She did add a dash of real chili pepper, and she put a bottle of his favorite Atascadero hot sauce on the table next to the plate she set before him, so life wasn’t so bad after all. “Thanks, Mom,” he said with put-on bri...
She walked out to the last tank sitting immobile in the field, the one that had made it the closest. The one that Swede had immobilized, had given his life to stop. The behemoth squatted there in the tall grass. Already it felt deserted, like those old tanks on static display in front of public b...
The dream-maker’s pulsing wave diminished to nothing, and for just a moment null space tugged at Yort’s psyche before the mothership slammed into the gravity limit of the target star, emerging from the inside. If Yort were describing the procedure in layman’s terms, he would tell a young Archon t...
I turned around, smoothly, weapon still ready but pointed low. He was a suit. Mid twenties, about five ten, dark hair cut short, straight and expensive, the five-o’clock shadow curse of the swarthy on his face and chin. He looked like Agency to me. You know, OGA, the Other Government Agency that ...
Jill Repeth stepped off the commercial flight to Helsinki with just a carry-on bag. Dressed in jeans and a warm jacket, hair peroxided and bobbed, she looked very much like one of the blonde-and-bronzed Laplanders of the Saami people, common stock in this Scandinavian country. Beside her, Roger M...