She was in a private office of Bill's leased embassy, in downtown Spirit near the Ministry of Dynastic Affairs. The embassy was part of the Temple of Administration. The Ministry's diplomatic office lay outside the Temple itself and just a few hundred meters from her embassy building. The Na-Dina...
As the skimmer began its automatic circling of the arrival point, he noticed the condition of the human shuttles. The front ends that faced toward the dome were melted into slag. The alien shuttle front ends were also melted. A glance at the spectroscope sensor readouts that filled one side of th...
“Call it a payment for services rendered—you have shown me the need to increase our maintenance payments to certain Servitors.” Matt looked quizzical. “Do you mean Despot Nikolaos? I thought he owed primary allegiance to Autarch Dreedle? Or perhaps you mean Despot Ioannis?...
I’ll be back at the Forest Room. Contact me as needed,” Jacob said as he walked to the rear slidedoor, noticing how quiet Carlos and Lori were as they sat in the seats snugged up against the rear wall. Somehow, somewhen, before the fleet got to the third planet, he wanted to have another brainsto...
It showed an enlargement of a reddish gas shell that was being pushed out by ultraviolet radiation from several O-type white stars. The rim area that the Anarchate molecular memory crystal said was the site of a naval shipyard lay near the gas bump commonly referred to as the “nose”. The Anarchat...
called Gareth loudly. “The Dragon will follow those two ships to their orbital station above Vandenberg. We will sweep the arrival site with our Higgs beam to ensure there are no stealth mines or other devices occupying that orbital space.” He nodded, happy to see others t...
Well, that is, if you didn’t count nine trees killed just below the Rose Garden, a smashed water fountain at the lawn’s south end, a hundred feet of smashed fence on Ellipse Road and a squashed pine tree on the east side of the upper Ellipse park. Six pairs of landing jacks did major damage to ca...
It was a start. “Thank you. Now, watch.” They all watched as five more thermonukes evaporated five major cities of the Rizen. Then what he expected happened. “Jack!” called Denise. “Incoming AV signal! From the Rizen city with the grav-pull ship. Do...
Lacking gravity plates like those in all Collector ships, the station spun so its inhabitants could enjoy centrifugal gravity in the outer ring. The central globe had openings at the north and south poles for entry by local spaceships. The Blue Sky, at a thousand feet long, was far too big to ent...
ALIENS Book One of the Aliens Series By T. Jackson King Other King Novels Alien Vigilante (forthcoming), Human Assassin (forthcoming), The Memory Singer (2014), Alien Assassin (2014), Anarchate Vigilante (2014), Galactic Vigilante (2013), Nebula Vigilante (2013),...
Then he sprang into the air, clawed hands and paw-feet extended to rip her open. He reacted. Bill touched the taser tube firing spot. A red beam shot out and hit the crouching Hungry Heart in her gut. He did not see that as he was already jumping to...