The Fallback Plan: Conundrum

by Ken Haramiru

Tensions continue escalating between the Agamemnon's AIs and the rapidly expanding (in more ways than one) human crew. Meanwhile, Kara's investigation is aided by some of the other crewmembers, and Kara's suspicions that the ship is far older than expected, turn out to be spot-on. But what's the ship's real plan? Find out inside. Book 2 contains Episodes 15-24 of this series, previously published episodically on Kindle Vella and elsewhere.

124 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2023

About the author

As my stories suggest, I live in a large city on America's west coast. I'm gainfully employed at a large, faceless corporation, and live with my wife and several adorable pets. Like any super hero, I write at night and keep my alter ego shielded from the public.

I've been writing science fiction off and on since my teens, but either couldn't finish stories due to writer's block, or they were fan fiction and thus unpublishable. Then one day I picked up the keyboard again, got frustrated with a block, and just wrote a sex scene. It was a spectacular one, and once it was over I learned that this was a genre I could actually write stories in. That was a bit of a tough self-revelation for me.

Eventually though, the two halves of my author persona came to an uneasy truce: the erotica writer in me actually writes, while the more traditional author hovers over his shoulder begging for my stories to have "real" content.\