A novella-sized tale of adventure, humor, good versus evil, and Cops & Dragons.
Brynn Starsinger, Lieutenant of the Queen’s Watch, is an anomaly among the elves of the City: an orphan seemingly born with no ability to work magic. After being falsely accused of murder, she is sentenced to face the justice of the mysterious Fey Lord. Though Bryn fears her life is over, the Fey Lord angrily declares the covenant had been broken and merely sends her off to sleep. When she is awakened by Turo, a dragon of many questions, and Bryn discovers the Fey Lord has been defeated, his forest left devastated, and everyone in her beloved City has vanished. Now Bryn and Turo must race against time to not only save the elves of the City, but also thwart the sinister plans of the Cult of the Fallen God.
Today’s Shipyard Sunday post covers the survey cutter IFS Agassiz. The Agassiz is a work-in-progress project, but she’s looking pretty sharp so far, so I figured that I’d share a render.
Science fiction is replete with stories the involve various forms of space weather: ion storms, plasma storms, and the like. I figure if in the modern day we have US Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) flying WC-130’s into hurricanes, then in distant future there’d have to daring crew flying their starships into the treacherous maws of the ion storms menacing the space lanes.
The ship takes her name from the USS Agassiz, a United States Coastal Survey ship that served with the Union Navy during the Civil War, and the USCGC Agassiz. The ship’s motto loosely translates to “Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly unto heaven” (William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2), which seemed to me like a good motto for a science ship.
I have a new story available: the novella ebook The Constable’s Quest is now live on Amazon!
The Constable’s Quest
A novella-sized tale of adventure, humor, good versus evil, and Cops & Dragons.
When a dead red dragon crashed in the alfalfa field on the outskirts of the city, Watch Sergeant Sigurd Arnson hoped it would attract the King’s attention to the remote frontier territory and the increasingly cruel duke who administered it for the Crown. What the dead dragon attracted instead was a runaway teenage girl with a magic talent that could lead her to the dragon’s lair and the treasure within. Now the duke has ordered Sigurd to take the girl into the Wilds and find the unclaimed hoard within seven days or they and their families will suffer the duke’s wrath.
Welcome to my pocket dimension of the internet! Things are still under construction, but in the meantime you can check out my Seuthen Universe fantasy novels here, or if you’re looking for science fiction you can find that Makhtari Universe stories here. If you are looking for some great anthologies then check out this list here.
You can also find all my novels and the anthologies that I’ve participated in on my Amazon author page.
