Perihelion E-Book

Tami Veldura

• Herausgeber: Tami Veldura
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Kato Ozark, crown prince and soldier, has just been chosen to pilot his family’s queenship. He’s trained his entire life for this honor, but it comes with a catch. It seems that First Engineer Mas’ud Tavana has also been chosen as the queen’s pilot. Mas’ud has no formal training, and they both believe a mistake has been made. But when an attack on a distant Ozark queen forces them to work together, it’s clear their minds are better as one than apart.

They might even go on a proper date. Through mission briefings and politically required offspring, the mental link their queenship forges between them only grows stronger. Within this bond they find strength in each other. Then a rogue AI attacks their ship, ripping the queen open to the core. The two pilots feel it all; the assault destroys their connection and tears them adrift into open space.

Kato and Mas’ud wake up in the medical bay of a rival family with no memory of their queenship or each other. Hailed as a war hero, Kato retrains as a kingship pilot, preparing to defend Earth against the AI. Mas’ud, dismissed as permanently broken, struggles to rediscover his own truth.

Their queenship is out there, waiting for her pilots to come home. The future of their family depends on it.

Leseprobe

PERIHELION

TAMI VELDURA

OLDEWOLFF ALTERNASCENTS

Copyright © 2015 by Tami Veldura.

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Book Layout ©2013 BookDesignTemplates.com & wrangled by OWEnt. Cover Design by Tami Veldura, protected under a creative commons Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives license. Cover art ©2015 by Max Bedulenko, all rights reserved, used with permission. Free commercial fonts by Font Squirrel. Title Font: GreatLakesNF.

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PERIHELION/ Tami Veldura. -- 1st ed.

ISBN 978-1-941319-10-9

Foreword

Kato Ozark, crown prince and soldier, has just been chosen to pilot his family’s queenship. He’s trained his entire life for this honor, but it comes with a catch. It seems that First Engineer Mas’ud Tavana has also been chosen as the queen’s pilot. Mas’ud has no formal training, and they both believe a mistake has been made. But when an attack on a distant Ozark queen forces them to work together, it’s clear their minds are better as one than apart.

They might even go on a proper date. Through mission briefings and politically required offspring, the mental link their queenship forges between them only grows stronger. Within this bond they find strength in each other. Then a rogue AI attacks their ship, ripping the queen open to the core. The two pilots feel it all; the assault destroys their connection and tears them adrift into open space.

Kato and Mas’ud wake up in the medical bay of a rival family with no memory of their queenship or each other. Hailed as a war hero, Kato retrains as a kingship pilot, preparing to defend Earth against the AI. Mas’ud, dismissed as permanently broken, struggles to rediscover his own truth.

Their queenship is out there, waiting for her pilots to come home. The future of their family depends on it.

M/M Goodreads Group

This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's "Loves Landscapes" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.

PHOTO DESCRIPTION:

A naked man rises from a tank of glowing blue liquid. Ports line his neck and ribs with cords extending from them, plugged into something unseen (and out of the picture). His skin is embedded with glowing circuits, and his shaved head bows forward. Mist floats around him as electric currents or lightning strikes illuminate the background.

STORY LETTER:

Dear Author,

I woke up to the sight of him coming out of a healing tank. I realized that I knew nothing but that this man was important to me. Please have this be in the middle of the story. I want to know what caused my amnesia, what we were before the amnesia, and what happened after this.

I think this will be sci-fi my only requirements are no tentacles, and I want a HFN or HEA. If we are of different species or races, it does not matter. Please tell me my story.

Sincerely,

Roger

STORY INFO:

Genre: science fiction, futuristic

Tags: action/suspense/adventure, military men, pilot, non-explicit, trans, amnesia, PTSD, psychic/sentient space craft, political intrigue, disability

Content Warnings: graphic violence

Word Count: 50,065

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreward

M/M Romance Group

Perihelion

1-5,

6-10

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11-15

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16-20,

21-25

Cast of Characters

Named Systems, Places, and Ships

List of Terms

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Acknowledgements

About the Author

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch,you must first invent the universe

―CARL SAGAN

I

Kato: Queenship Selvans

Kato fingered the overstarched cuff of his dress blues. The pins on his left breast glinted under the light, and he twitched his shoulders back. Ceren flicked his elbow from her place behind him, and he corrected his hands. Down at his hips, thumbs in line with the seam. He inched his right boot further into the tie-down keeping him in place. He took a deep breath. The women in line to either side of him did the same.