I heard the pilot engage the engines as I pulled my harness straps over my shoulders, and then the air in front of my face began to sparkle.“It’s here,” I heard Shon say.I felt his paw grope for my hand as the dazzling light expanded and streamed over me. A cascade of blinding golden stars pierce...
Explaining things was impossible. It didn’t matter. From the sympathetic looks I got, it already appeared to be public knowledge. I asked Squilyp to assist the nurses until I got back. He was polite and pretended to believe my invented excuse.I went to my quarters. Signaled the Captain. Made a fe...
I stood there watching until he did. Then he listened to the drone spout a lot of programming directives, while I paced along the length of the helm and brooded.“I’m hungry, Reever,” I lied. “Let’s go see what kind of food this heap has to offer.” A couple of weeks on Te Abanor with the bat peopl...
L. Viehl ALSO BY S. L. VIEHL StarDoc Beyond Varallan Endurance Shockball Eternity Row Rebel Ice Plague of Memory Blade Dancer Bio Rescue Afterburn For Frank Frazetta, whose incredible art opened my eyes to a universe of possibilities. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to thank Joely Sue Burkhart for na...
I wept for her. Then I took justice for what had been done. She arrived on the vessel that appeared just before dawn. I saw it at once as it came hurtling out of control, a thin white streak against the fading purple of the sky. Like too many others, it had been wrenched from its flight path by t...
I had long wished him to acknowledge that I was not Cherijo, but now that he had, I could take no pleasure in it.He had been angry; I knew that. His reason for saying such things to me may have been only to strike back at me for depriving him of revenge. Still, the blow was a heavy one. To be cal...
There was green and purple blood on his face. "My chest hurts. Burns." I saw traces of the Odnallak dust on his nostrils and in the corners of his mouth. "You took me from the chamber." I could remember it clearly now. "He was going to suffocate you in that dirt." He carried me onto the scout and...
I’m so proud of you. I love you. Stay with us, sweetheart. PART ONE Contentions CHAPTER ONE The Sunlace … and [I] will abstain from every voluntary art of mischief and corruption, and further from the seduction of females or males, bond or free… -Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.) Hippocrates must have...