by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 8, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 14 CHAPTER 8 “Why didn’t you warn me?” Occo demanded. Floating next to her so it could examine the spectacle on the main screen for itself, Bresk’s mantle swelled indignantly. “Warn you? Do you have any...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 6, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 13 In addition to these major divisions, innumerable smaller sects and creeds emerged as well. Naccor Jute, the one to which Occo belonged — or had belonged; she still didn’t know if there were any other survivors...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 3, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 12 CHAPTER 7 Occo and Bresk passed through the first wormhole on their voyage a short time later. This was the wormhole which would take them to the Masc Bleddin system, the largest wormhole nexus in their stellar vicinity. From...
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 1, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 11 “That’s ridiculous. Moral isotropy applies only to sublime issues, not choosing a pathway or a meal.” “Fine. Take the center option –” “Shut up. I’m thinking.” Thought proved...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 27, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 10 CHAPTER 6 “This is Gadraxpath Grendel’s Mother, formerly known as Naccor Jute Vessel Kurryoccoc, notifying whatever agents of the Envacht Lu might be present in the system that we are approaching the wormhole terminus...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 24, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 09 “Just ‘magic’, please. The phrase ‘actual magic’ is tautological.” “Only if magic exists.” The search program finally reached the desired section of the Gray Archives. Occo began...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 22, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 08 CHAPTER 5 Occo didn’t go far to set up her own camp. Just far enough from the Envacht Lu encampment to get away from them and find a location that didn’t remind her of her now-vanished home cloister. She settled on...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 20, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 07 Then, she recited the name of their mentor, destroyed with them. Bax Nkley Kreaquab octou Naccor Jute. Resident within Coherence, adept of the Naccor Jute. Her mates, as she herself, had been named by their mentor. Their names...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 17, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 06 CHAPTER 4 The devastation was extraordinary. Everywhere she looked, Occo saw nothing but a churned landscape. The only color below the pale blue sky was a sickly gray-brown. The ground had neither the consistency of soil nor of...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 15, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 05 Basil chuckled. “That’s him. You know, I think they were just on the verge of firing him before he won his first Prize. He’d been late four days in a row, and couldn’t even remember the number on his...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 13, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 04 CHAPTER 3 Tabor sipped his coffee and wondered what the hell would happen next. He was mystified by what had transpired already, both the ship shutting down and Shenoy’s off-the-wall solution to the problem, but he was...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 10, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 03 “Russ Tabor,” he said, reaching out and shaking each of their hands in turn. “And I’m Basil Stone, and this is Andrea Melander.” Basil stared at him, as if sizing him up. “I wasn’t...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 8, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 02 CHAPTER 2 Tabor was waiting for Shenoy in the lobby of the latter’s hotel. “Nice place,” he remarked as Shenoy emerged from an airlift, accompanied by two large, uniformed androids that were carrying his...
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 6, 2017 | Collaborators, Snippets
Gods of Sagittarius – Snippet 01 THE GODS OF SAGITTARIUS ERIC FLINT, MIKE RESNICK CHAPTER 1 Russ Tabor pulled a thin smokeless cigar out of his pocket, lit it, took a puff, stalked around the outer office, tossed it in a trash atomizer, kept walking, pulled...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 7, 2016 | Collaborators, Snippets
This book should be available now so this is the last snippet. The Span Of Empire – Snippet 62 “Positive,” Tully said. “Get back to your squads. Life in general may be about to get ‘interesting’ again.” The two guards both...
