Lieutenant Yusmara doesn’t pilot by numbers—she flies by instinct, feeling the currents of space as if by rope and canvas. But when the starship Gemini encounters an unknown presence beyond the edge of Human space, her intuition tells her something is different.
Humanity has never made first contact. This should be a ... moment for history books. But the thing pacing their ship does not respond. It does not signal. It does not behave like anything they’ve seen before.
And Yusmara may be the only one who can understand it.read more
BIOGRAPHY Chuck Boeheim brings his career in science and technology to tales of science fiction and fantasy while leaning into the "sufficiently advanced technology" trope. He's prone to filling his notebook with celestial mechanics calculations and other research for accuracy before telling the human stories set against that ... background. (Don't worry, the math doesn't end up in the stories.) His debut novel Sellenria has appeared on the Amazon top Hard Science Fiction list, while Knots is an exploration of a magical world based on topology. His short story Charon recently appeared in the anthology "Of Gods and Globes III."
Chuck lives with his wife, Chidori, and two cats, Rumplethumpkin and Yomogi, on the edge of Cayuga Lake in Upstate New York. When not writing, he enjoys reading, gardening, cooking, and traveling the world. He's visited most places in the world with high-energy physics labs and is now busy filling in the gaps in between.read more