A new short story set in the Chared Space universe of Traveller!
Ethin is a man on the run, driven from his homeworld by a censorious religious dictatorship and into the unlikely company of a mercenary Aslan trader, an inscrutable Marzian mechanic, and a medic who is surely too young for the life of a pirate. In this story, he inadvertently impunes the honour of an Aslan, with fier
There is suffering for one’s art, and then there is this…
Ethin is a man on the run, driven by a censorious religious dictatorship from his homeworld and into the unlikely company of a mercenary Aslan trader, an inscrutable Marzian mechanic, and a medic who is surely too young for the life of a pirate.
With their aging free trader coming apart around them, Ethin and his fellow Travellers are... [click here for more]
John Fortune is a street kid made good. Thanks to a genius for maths and physics, he carves out a successful career in interstellar engineering. But there's something not quite right about John. Something not quite human. His one true friend, Frank Patterson, is sure he knows the secret. Frank can't afford to be wrong. Mankind's survival depends on it. This 10,000 word short SF story/novella is... [click here for more]