Hello.
On these pages you will find
an excerpt from my unpublished novel "Three Days in Shayadran," a
science-fiction tale which I am hawking to several publishers at the moment. If
you are a publisher, please fee free to take a read and consider if it's something
you'd be interested in. You can e-mail me with this link.
SERIOUS REQUESTS ONLY, PLEASE.
If you're just a fan of
sci-fi, feel free to take a look too. I welcome your input.
The Premise:
"Three Days in Shayadran"
takes place in a distant future. Humanity has colonized much of the galaxy and is
ruled by the sprawling and mostly well-meaning Terran Empire. The big business
of the time and place is interstellar commerce. Spaceports are centers of
culture and seats of economic power, and the Terran Freemerchant Guild is one
of the most powerful organizations in the galaxy. While there are alien races
scattered here and there, for the most part the only other species that matters
are the Koni, a far-wandering race of explorers and traders. The Terrans and
the Koni share a loose alliance, and they jointly manage Shayadran Port, the
greatest spaceport in the Empire, a place that many traders call home. The main
character of this story is one such trader. Rogan Slorn, small-time independent
trader and member of the Freermerchant Guild, returns to Shayadran after many
months away. He looks up his old friend Meg, a fellow Freemerchant, and her new
business partners, a group of disreputable Koni adventurers. During a rowdy
night of drinking and gambling, one of these Koni attempts to hustle Rogan out
of his ship. This plan backfires, and Rogan walks away with all the money, a
new ship, and a new enemy.
This excerpt begins the next
morning, as a hungover Rogan tries to piece together the events of the night
before...
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