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Images & Words: Venetian Penumbra

Images & Words: Venetian Penumbra


The low, sweltering Mediterranean sun felt all too real. Perhaps I should have picked another setting for this introduction, or another season. But there’s nothing more beautiful than the low summer sun reflecting off the blue sea as locals and vacationers stroll the Venetian waterfronts.

Images & Words: Echoes of Ascension

Images & Words: Echoes of Ascension


Saito shuffled through the red storm toward the airlock … hesitated … then stopped. Fine Martian sand hissed against his faceplate, the white noise interrupted by the occasional tick! impact of larger pebbles.

From a Better Vanished Time

Images & Words: From a Better Vanished Time


Every Sunday, for years, I’d fired up its rumbling and willing engine and journeyed to the countryside to visit my white-haired uncle. The VMX, a gift from him, was his dearest dream … a mechanical anachronism from a better vanished time.

Images & Words: Street City Pursuit

Images & Words: Street City Pursuit


The rain was starting to let up, it’s job to cleanse Street City of obsolete and spurious data just about complete. It was an aesthetic method of maintenance utilized to keep immersion intact. But to her it still felt deceptively cold and wet.

Infinispace Glossary: Collectors

Images & Words: Shit Sandwiches


… lull them into a sense of security and purpose, to distract them from most of their miserable existences … not to make them question their keepers. The keepers frowned on that. The sleepers must sleep, even if they don’t know they slumber.

Images & Words: Rooftop Retreat

Images & Words: Rooftop Retreat


He looked over the edge and scanned the surrounding glow for signs of Collectors. Gravedigger better goddamn pay up. This avatar heist started out as a cakewalk, but quickly turned into a shit sandwich.

Revelation Space Universe

Revelation Space Reading Order


In what order do I read these works? With a little research I was able to map out the Revelation Space reading order.  Some of the years may not be exact, but […]

Images & Words: The End


Image The End by Paul Chadeisson Words Neal Ulen When : Where 551 DE (2861 CE) : Unknown The dreadnought dropped out of shellspace after shooting the gap through the […]

Shiva by Thom Tenery

Shiva by Thom Tenery


The stream of indoctrination slaves never ends.  They arrive on Shiva from all corners of the galaxy, most of them human . . . for humans were the only galactic […]

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