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Get all of the Hayden's World stories in one bundle and save 25% with Hayden's Bundle: Volume 1. The book includes: 43 Seconds, Silver-Side Up, Erebus, Signal Loss, Last Stand, Aero One, and Titan's Shadow.
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New Release - Titan's Shadow
Titan's Shadow is now available on Amazon for 99 cents.
Jia, Ping, and the pirates are back in the sequel to Aero One. Get the 12,500 word novella, Titan's Shadow, for 99 cents on Amazon.
New Story Teasers
Jia, Ping, and the pirates return. Read some teasers from my soon-to-be released novella, Titan's Shadow,
Jia, Ping, and the pirates return in my new story, Titan's Shadow. I'm working on editing and revisions now and will release it this month. Here's a few teasers:
Saturn’s ammonia clouds stretch off into an infinite horizon, the Sun casting long shadows across the platform’s deck. Lucky Cricket rests on the transit ramp silhouetted against the sky. Shimmering aerostat lights hang suspended in the clouds, waiting.
At first it’s a nibble out of the Sun, growing from its left side. It’s not until nearly half of the Sun is blotted out that the glare dims and the party fades to sunset. The kaleidoscopic sea of neon wearables pulses and shimmers with the revelers. Ping’s hair shifts to amber. He slides his hand behind the nape of Jia’s neck and draws her near. Enceladus centers itself perfectly over the Sun, ringed by the corona, and, for a perfect moment, it’s night inside the Panorama. Ping kisses her, his lips warm and tasting of champagne. As they pull apart, the Sun fades in and the party returns to daytime.
Jia’s grunting, fighting with the controls. Fire suppression sprays a white fog which wreathes around the windows.
Ping is groggy, shaking his head. “Are we going to crash?”
Jia glances at the aft camera. The port engine sheathing peels away and spins off into the darkness. “Yes. We are definitely going to crash.”
Galen stands and heads to the airlock. Inside, his EV suit is colored cobalt metallic blue with copper plates. Beside the suit is a rifle and pistol. He checks both before gearing up.
Jia slips into her red EV suit as Ping dons his PLEX suit. Once she’s dressed she checks her pulse pistol. The ammo indicator is full. She slides it into her hip mount.
“Ready?” Galen asks, slinging his rifle onto his back.
Jia’s nervous, shifting her weight. “Yeah.”
Overhead, Saturn is a yellow moon in a speckled sky. A lone white star traverses silently across that sky. It flashes blue and Galen’s ship blossoms into a fireball. Chunks rain down streaming fiery tails, impacting the deck, while the smaller pieces shoot up into the sky like a thousand fireflies. There’s no blast wave in the vacuum, just the low rumble of the explosion’s sound transmitting through their boots. Everyone staggers back into the doorway.
Galen is stunned. He grabs onto the door frame and steadies himself. Ship pieces pulse orange like dying embers, flashing as if gunpowder were sprinkled on them.
NEW RELEASE: Erebus - now available on Amazon
All of your favorite characters are back - James, Ananke, William, and Hitoshi - with a few new ones in this exciting follow-up to 43 Seconds and Silver-Side Up. Bernard's Beauty flies again, but so does the newest Riggs ship, Gossamer Goose. Get the new Hayden's World novelette, Erebus, on Amazon now for 99 cents.
Sneak Peek - Erebus
A few sneak peeks at what I'm currently writing.
In "Silver-Side Up", James gives us a sneak peek at the next Riggs ship, Gossamer Goose, and mentions Sarah is slated to be Gossamer's pilot. You'll recall Sarah appears at the end of "43 Seconds" as the pilot on stand-by near Mars if anything went wrong.
I've been writing Sarah's story, and thought I'd share a few snippets from it. Let me know your thoughts:
Sarah pushes the Pintail’s flight stick forward and the aquamarine sky rolls away. Below, the cloud deck is an impossible swirl of cinnamon and gold with pockets of flickering lightning. Thunder rumbles in bursts, its audio out of sync with the light show. Through the cockpit windows great banded rings fade into the horizon and the scale of it is almost too much to take in at once. Motion catches her eye as a silver glimmer carves a vapor trail across the sky, alternating red and green strobes pulsing from its wings. It changes course, the vapor trail bending behind it, then corkscrews a white spiral before matching her altitude. Saturn’s moons are an audience of bright stars behind it.
“Well, now you’re just showing off,” Sarah says to her helmet mic.
The stars behind Bernard’s Beauty swirl to an invisible periphery as if pushed by a great unseen force. Each brightens and blues. In the blink of an eye the ship collapses into the nothingness of space, the stars rotating back into place in its wake.
Transmission Four: +9 days/+21 hours
Sarah’s having lunch with her mother. Gaige sits beside her, happy to be reunited after her two-week trip. Sarah’s mother has been a saint taking care of him each time she’s been away.
In James’s video the cabin lights are dimmed and he’s weightless in a wall-mounted sleeping bag, his arms floating in front of him. There’s just not enough room in Bernard’s for a separate sleeping area. He gives a salute before turning off the light.
William pilots the Sandpiper on final approach to Hayden-Pratt’s MEO2 construction dock. It’s a twin to the Cassini One shipyard, a great wheel in space filled with brilliant blue Earthshine and sharp shadow. Mounted perpendicular to the wheel is a sixty-two meter wedge with gold light spilling from its cockpit windows. It’s sunlit-side is blinding white, washed out, but its shadow side is illuminated with pockets of running lights and strobes. Black registry letters read HP-G01 Gossamer Goose. Below it the Earth is a sun-washed ocean swirled with powder.
Hitoshi drums his fingers against his thumb.
“You okay?” Sarah asks.
“Okay to design the ships. Not so much for the flying, I’m an engineer, not a test pilot,” he says.
“Well, you’re more of a test passenger, if that makes you feel any better.”
“No. Not really.”