Books
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Book 01: Meridian
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Book 02: Edenworld
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Book 03: Bodicea
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Book 04: Winter
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Book 05: Aurora
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Book 06: Crucible
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Book 07 Yronwode
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Book 08: Hellfire
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Book 09: Gethsemane
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Books: 10-12
Worlds Apart Stories (Which Are Shorter)
Fiddlers Green
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The Aves Quentin, carrying TyroCommander Redfire and an exploration crew crashes into a swamp. In order to save his ship and his crew, Redfire must deal with the local inhabitants and navigate the rules of a planet that stands logic on its head then pulls down its pants and laughs at it.
Medea
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Pegasus finds a devastated world whose human colonists have been wiped out by an alien attack. While the crew studies the mystery, Redfire creates a dangerous and controversial scheme for rebuilding the colony.
Independence
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Submitted for your approval, Commander William Keeler and six others depart the planet Indepedence to return to their ship, The Pegasus. Unbeknown to them, the shuttle Prudence is about to take a detour to a dimension of sight, and sound, and of mind. Fasten your seat belts and put away any service items you may have used during the flight, as we prepare for a landing in The Twilight Zone.
The Last Two People on Electra IV
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Long before Pegasus begins its journey, the last two human colonists on a dying world struggle to survive after an alien invasion.
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General Trivia That Is Meaningless
- Fidder's Green: Flight Lieutenant Lawless is based on Lucy Lawless.
- Fidder's Green: The line "as though the ship were grinning at him" echoes the end of the movie Silver Streak.
- The plot of Independence has similarities to Stephen King€™s The Langoliers.
- Independence: Keeler makes reference to "an old Earth legend" that is actually the classic sci-fi story "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
- Independence: "Happy Fun Ball" is a
reference to the SNL sketch "Happy Fun Ball."
- "The Last Two People on Electra IV" is the only Worlds-Apart story (So far) not involving the Pathfinder Ship Pegasus, although it is set on a world visited by the Pathfinder Ship Lexington Keeler in Book 06.
- Electra IV: Many place names in the state of California including Torrance, Tulare, and Modoc are referenced in the story.
- Electra IV is the only serious Worlds-Apart story, devoid of any comic relief. How depressing is that?
- Electra IV was originally written as a submission for the Critters-dot-org creative writing exchange, but I never got around to submitting it.
- Electra IV: A "Silver Lady" also figures prominently in Matthew Driver and Trajan Lear€™s memory of the Chronos universe. (FYI: They are the same creature.)
- Medea was recycled as the first three chapters of Book 03: Bodicéa, so you can pretty much skip one or the other.