Certain Trajectories and Other Stories - Digital

Certain Trajectories

Jabagil, a nomad and former Orbit Guard pilot, is one of the best smugglers in Sol System. When The Family assigns her a contract to deliver an experimental mining craft to Galilean Space, she knows it will be a challenge, but it soon becomes clear that something more sinister is going on. When her ex-fiancé shows up to blast her out of the sky, she’s forced to question more than just the mission.

Additionally contained in this volume: 29 flash fiction stories, including:

Alfie's Ice Cream

The SCS Alfred Nobel, a colony ship with centuries-sleeping passengers, seeks to understand its charges better. The first lesson: ice cream from scratch.

The Cat on King Arthur's Space Yacht

Has King Arthur, leader of the knights of the Camelot space station and wielder of the powerful Excalibur Array, broken his own interplanetary laws to acquire, of all things, a pet cat?

Salvage

When the government confiscates a valuable artifact from one of their dives, a salvage crew considers drastic action to help avoid a war.

Jonnen(Re) the Sanibot vs. The Fully Automatic House

A retelling of a classic American tall tale. When the relevance of all Sanibots is threatened by a new invention, soft-spoken, hardworking Jonnen(Re) steps up to face the competition.

Also: check out the marked pages for the Drabble Interruption: 37 tiny bonus stories in the middle of the book!