EVENT SCHEDULED: July 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern
On Monday, July 7, 8 p.m. Eastern, we’ll have a reboot event in Cape Canaveral involving the Pinnacle message.
On Monday, July 7, 8 p.m. Eastern, we’ll have a reboot event in Cape Canaveral involving the Pinnacle message.
Steven Campbell first came up with the idea of Hard Luck Hank in the 1990s as a pitch for articles in a fishing magazine. Now Hank’s the star of Campbell’s series of comedic pulp sci-fi stories. Campbell recently took the time to answer some questions: Wes Platt: When do you first remember wanting to write?…
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA – Two decades ago, Billy Truman’s younger brother, Coswell, launched aboard the Pinnacle from the Consortium Orbital Spacedock on a mission from which he didn’t expect to return. Now comes a message from the Pinnacle – presumably in text and audio, sources say – with the seemingly simple message: “They are coming.”…
Busby wanders into the lab wearing wrap-around pink shades and a plaid bathrobe over shorts, flip-flops, and a T-shirt that reads “MA HUMPS.” He finds a chair at one of the holotables and settles into it with a happy sigh. Tilsworth is meanwhile standing near the holotable, a large sheaf of papers on a clipboard…
VOR, KAMSHO – Holographic posters are materializing through hijacked emitter signals on several worlds in the Ancient Expanse, including major cities on Kamsho and Hekayt Prime. The posters feature the bright blue letters “CT” and the image of a dark-haired human with platinum highlights, who wears a scarf and red-framed sunglasses, with a message below…
Again with the light. This time, though, with the splintered stick in the ear. That’s a new one today, he thought. He didn’t say it, however. No, he was too busy screaming. Eventually, the sharp pain ebbed into an aching throb. “Did you act alone?” The deep-voiced Hekayti interrogator, a close companion these past few…
“Please deactivate all electronic devices as we make our final descent into Seattle, Washington,” came the female flight attendant’s voice over the jet’s public address system. Teena Fields, caught in mid-sentence in her latest dissertation on World War II battles in the Pacific Theater, sighed in disappointment. She had hoped to finish that section before…