Xenogenesis

by J. Richard Jacobs

Xenogenesis is a tale of change; inexorable and inevitable. Human beings are always craving change but when it comes it is frightening ... Sometimes to the point that we would prefer death. Pat Dalworthy is a tracker, ex-pilot cadet in space corps and a dabbler in physics. As a Tracker, a hunter of people who would rather not be found, he is the best there is in inner system and, to hear him tell it, outer system, too. One of the problems with being the best is that you sometimes get much, much more than you bargained for. Dalworthy is in for the ride of a lifetime and more than a life-time of a ride when he is contracted by Sean McGavin, one of the wealthiest men in the solar system, to track down one of his granddaughters. She has disappeared into the lower city and she has taken something McGavin wants returned. Dalworthy is to hunt her down and come back with both the woman and the goods. He is not to stop until it is done. It is not going to be easy and he is expendable. What she has in her possession could easily spell the end of all life on earth, maybe the whole solar system if the slightest error is made, but what she carries in her will bring an indelible change to the human species and there is nothing anyone, not even Dalworthy, can do about it. So, which is it going to be, the end of all life or a change known as ... Xenogenesis?

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

I am an author of Science Fiction (both soft and hard), and science fact. I occasionally play with Fantasy, Paranormal, and Horror. The Horror is usually darkly humorous. More rarely I dash off a little mainstream-ish stuff for the not-too-squeamish.

I have been an avid and active amateur astronomer since 1947. I began writing at the professional level in 1956 when, at 16, I went to work as a technical writer and illustrator for Butler Publications in West Los Angeles, CA.

A brief change in my writing habits occurred when I became a naval architect, though I continued to write articles for trade magazines and journals on such things as yacht design, creative mathematics in design, applied physics, etc. When I "retired", I moved to Mexico to teach some folks how to build small craft, English as a second language, physics and observational astronomy.

I moved to New Mexico in 1998 where I worked at our local high school teaching mathematics, English, journalism, science and, of course, astronomy to the interested.

I now live in the southeast corner of New Mexico with my wife, Julieta, our son, Oscar, daughter Alexandra, her husband, and their 4 children. To round out the menagerie, we also support an insanely beautiful dog named Mars, 3 other dogs and 3 cats.