Starwalker

Wow. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, on both sides of the page! But, it’s finally done. This week’s post, Avatar, marks the end of Book 2 of Starwalker. This week is also the end of the second year of the Starwalker serial! Two years; two books; just over 200,000 words: I think that’s [...]

Ship’s log, 21:57, 14 March 2214 Location: 7 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit   This can’t be happening. I can’t have just scored my own paint to rescue the person responsible for all the bad things in my short life. And yet here she is: Kess, the one who hired Hunt [...]

Ship’s log, 21:23, 14 March 2214 Location: 5 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit   There are two escape pods sitting in my cargo bay. They’re three metres long and two wide, big enough to hold three people each, or four at a squeeze. Both of them have the name Firebird emblazoned [...]

Ship’s log, 21:10, 14 March 2214 Location: 3 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit   I’m flying towards the heart of an explosion, and I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t fun. The explosion is done now but its remains are still spreading out in a ragged halo, pinging in energetic [...]

Ship’s log, 20:32, 14 March 2214 Location: Near Venus, Home System Status: Sublight transit   I’ve left Earth behind. I’ve shaken the planet off my metal feet and pulled out of her atmosphere like a chick pecking its way out of an egg. It has shrunk in my rear sensors, beyond the glow of my [...]