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Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist (2024) Irene is not ashamed of being born and brought up on the moon. It's not as if it's a secret! So one night after a bad dream she lets it slip to her university roommate. Then the discrimination starts, with rumors of strange abilities and disabilities, as she learns that 'moonchild' is a pejorative. As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. But the world conspires against her on a grander scale: she's set up as the patsy for a crime, inveigled ...

Moonchild Irene Slade has nothing left to lose — not family, not home, not even the solace of blame. Alpha Centauri is far from no one she loves. When a disenfranchised pilot, kept at the margins of the mission’s briefings, has an encounter with an intelligent alien species, the result is catastrophic. Lives are lost. Truth is buried. And guilt becomes Irene's legacy. Among the dead was a friend... A sister... An aunt... So Irene bends protocol and invokes her override—bringing two young women into a mission strained by silence. Their presence is a quiet act of atonement… and a ...

Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist (Teens); Book Excellence Awards Finalist (SF); Global Book Award Silver Medalist (SF Action & Adventure). "For young adults from 9 to 99" The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and other kids start showing unusual gifts. Airlie uses her psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes. Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing ...

Short Stories and Flash Fiction This is the fourth anthology of short stories and flash fiction from the Blackwood Writers Group (South Australia). Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy with touches of HorrorYou will see stories that examine how the strings that hold a marriage together are strained in Andrew Loves His Wife, a scientist manages to elevate his discovery above what he’d expected in High Note, a new recruit in a near-Orwellian society is assigned to the effort in War Footing, and a young girl finds that she and her pet kitten share a very close bond that will make...

"When you're 2.5 million lightyears from help, you can't afford people who only have a single skill..." At just 20 years old, Veterinary Nurse and Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is the youngest junior officer aboard the SS Moraturi, a colony ship transporting 500 settlers and their animals to New Eden. Tasked with caring for the domestic and farm animals, Eva is focused on her dual dream of becoming both a veterinary and medical doctor. But everything changes when a gamma burst in the wormhole forces Eva into a role she never trained for: leader of a mission that’s slipped out of ...

"there’s a difference between being a loner and being alone" A 3.5 year mission from which they'll never return, a 2.5 million lightyear journey to another galaxy, a 1.5 member crew comprising a solitary captain and a half-baked AI... Captain Sideris is a loner and knows LETO ships like nobody else, having risen to command the Lunar-Earth construction fleet, as they build ships to mine asteroids and colonize Mars. Suddenly he finds the colonization effort is for another planet, in another galaxy, and he's the sole human guinea pig being gated through a wormhole with an AI playing Noah to ...

Some cats get tangled up in a ball of wool. The Moraturi cats got entangled in a wormhole. What a 21st! Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall. SS Moraturi is a Lunar Earth Transfer Orbiter - a kind of spider robot designed to construct space stations and ships in and around the Earth-Moon Lagrange points 1 and 2. Now Moraturi is taking two cryoholds full of colonists to New Eden, an ...