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TRIF3CTA: 3 Stories of Speculative Contact
TRIF3CTA – 3 Short Stories of Speculative Contact
TABU – The people of the floating raft city of Concordia are survivors of a spacecraft that crashed on the mostly water world of Aquaria centuries before. They end each conversation with, “Until the Return of the Ship!” Finally a ship has returned, the crew is mostly human, and the Concordians might lose more than they hoped to gain from the contact.
DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGE – Three professionals, two academic and one military, are summoned to witness an experiment – to peer into the 18th Century. They had no idea they would actually make contact with it. History may never be the same.
TRAPPERS – Fur trapper Caleb Pasco is leaving the mountains for civilization after twenty years. His plans change when he makes contact with something never before seen on Earth – and it wants him.
TABU – The people of the floating raft city of Concordia are survivors of a spacecraft that crashed on the mostly water world of Aquaria centuries before. They end each conversation with, “Until the Return of the Ship!” Finally a ship has returned, the crew is mostly human, and the Concordians might lose more than they hoped to gain from the contact.
DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGE – Three professionals, two academic and one military, are summoned to witness an experiment – to peer into the 18th Century. They had no idea they would actually make contact with it. History may never be the same.
TRAPPERS – Fur trapper Caleb Pasco is leaving the mountains for civilization after twenty years. His plans change when he makes contact with something never before seen on Earth – and it wants him.
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2015
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September 28, 2016
A juicy and satisfying collection containing three stories about contacts with otherness. In the first one, an old time fur trapper encounters something that wants the same natural resource he's after. The second story, Diplomatic Exchange is a fun comedic romp involving accidental time travel, in which we meet three figures from American history. This story I thought would make quite a fun [stage] play, and while reading it I couldn't help but think about how some of the scenes could play out on a stage. The third story is a thoughtful "what-if" situation involving re-contact with a lost human colony among the stars. After finishing this one, I felt it was a little too compressed and could have been longer and been just as satisfying... I definitely wanted to read more about the Tregellion Alliance, and was hoping the author has more stories in that universe.
The whole book is not very long, and it would be a nice one to take along to read while traveling.
The whole book is not very long, and it would be a nice one to take along to read while traveling.
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