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Clay's Moon and Rachel training

Clay’s Moon and Rachel training

from The Road to Bluehorse   The next morning, or the next day period, Clay managed to get up and forget the low gravity of the Moon. He banged his head on an overhead cabinet, then his shin on the bed corner. Cussing, he managed to pull on his robe and go out to the common area. Natasha sat there in her robe with a cup of coffee. Clay managed to get a cup for himself.   “Rachel’s got the…

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Clay and the future passed

Clay and the future passed

From The Road to Bluehorse Old Earth had been through a lot. It had coalesced from interstellar debris, in a spin about a coalescing star, and it was good. It had passed through fire and acid rain and had somehow developed life, and it was good. Bacteria had consumed most of the carbon dioxide and belched out oxygen, destroying the environment that had created them, and they simply evolved into…

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Jacky and the new regime

Jacky and the new regime

Somehow or other, Jacky Clotilde has returned to my life. All of my readers—or should I say, both of my readers, ha ha—know that I am a novel-writing addict. To some extent, I write novels instead of reading them. I have written The End at least seventeen times, ranging from a novella (The Knot, about 50,000 words) to the two Clanish novels, The Tale of Countess Vivian at 240,000 words and The…

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Friends of the Sky 14 cont'd: The hunt is on

Friends of the Sky 14 cont’d: The hunt is on

4. Emily Gray, second pilot of Tasmania, went into a huddle with a couple of the Ngugma and with Natasha and Padfoot, and an hour later, on the Tasmania bridge, they were ready to talk. “The Ngugma are very clever,” she was saying, “about patterns, about connecting the dots. But the thing is, these dots are varied by time, so that if there’s a pattern, we’re seeing it not only in three…

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Friends of the Sky 14 cont'd: Greenstar

Friends of the Sky 14 cont’d: Greenstar

2. Gaazokgov, known to the visitors from away as Greenstar, was in fact a bluish-greenish sun, larger than Sol, by itself in the middle of the far reach of the Orion Arm. It had more than a dozen planets of significant size, including a whopping seven gas and ice giants, ranging from an enormous near-star with astonishing nebulous rings to three cold blue globes the size and consistency of Uranus…

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Friends of the Sky 12 ending: Partings

Friends of the Sky 12 ending: Partings

6. The fleet said goodbye to Flaayy, in orbit over the most populous planet, and that was emotional enough: Flaayy was easily the most huggable Ngugma they had encountered, although that didn’t say much. Then they headed out to the rendezvous moon, where they took the opportunity to relax for a fortnight before they had to attempt any further farewells. The two weeks passed all too quickly. Clay…

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Friends of the Sky 12 cont'd: Slide, Clay Gilbert, slide!

Friends of the Sky 12 cont’d: Slide, Clay Gilbert, slide!

4. The seven fighters bent their course slightly, to come around at an arc toward the big pale gas giant, a bleached Jupiter, and its biggest moon, a ball about the size of Mars. As the light hours diminished to light minutes, the target moon revealed some detail: it was white as chalk; its surface was saturated with craters; it had no mountains and none of the rills and river valleys…

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Friends of the Sky 12 cont'd: Convincing

Friends of the Sky 12 cont’d: Convincing

3. Forty-nine light years from Spiral Arch lies a system of five stars, born together from the same dust cloud and still together in their middle age. The five suns stand well apart from one another, with two of them as close as Jupiter and Sol and the other three more than double Pluto distance from one another. Thus freed from interference from their siblings, these three all have planets,…

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