Tag Archives: Science Fiction

Early on, my half-brother and half-sister and I formed a triad for dancing. The Second Prime is the number of music, for there is the drum, the dance, and the song, the trinity that flows between the dancers as the … Continue reading →

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading →

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading →

I am still absorbing the shock of seeing Jehen again after fifteen years, as long as Martisset yr Astok the Elder served as a starship captain. He retired to pursue clan-politics, which are the politics of Karis and the Inhabited … Continue reading →

Once I would have said I wanted “freedom” — the freedom to range, to explore, to soar as high as I liked — but I wouldn’t have said that, because freedom was the atmosphere in which I swam. Once I … Continue reading →

I never explained our ways to anyone else until I went away to the Academy (“the Academy at Karis” as it is known in the Inhabited Worlds). Then I met Jehen and her half-sister Yasmin and half-brother Ferenc, which changed … Continue reading →

It’s said that life Aboard-Ships is monotonous, and I only wish that it were so. When Martisset yr Astok and Karisalay whose clan-name I don’t know refused to sit at table with myself and the Immortal — a diplomatic incident … Continue reading →

Temn’s airship was piloted by AIs keyed to his nervous system; should anyone assassinate him, the ship would self-destruct. The food was delicious, and the fittings gorgeous. I didn’t want to live like a grubber. So Ship’s fare does not excite nostalgia, … Continue reading →