More Science Fiction by Edward Hoornaert
The Tribulations of Tompa Lee
Tompa Lee serves as ambassador to the Shons' planet and is hailed as their goddess . . . but she distrusts fellow humans, has a dead man living in her head, and fears an imminent attack by Klicks, mankind's greatest enemy. Ming Mengliev is posing as a mere musician when Klicks destroy the Terran embassy . . . but although he strives to win Tompa's trust—and her heart—whose side is this secret agent really on?
Book 2 in The Trilogy of Tompa Lee
The Triumph of Tompa Lee
When Tompa Lee forges a forbidden alliance between three species, the Galactic Trading Council hires Lily Kilsing, earth's most feared bounty hunter, to deal with her. Kilsing lures Tompa to a deserted alien city by kidnapping her fiancé and her best friend. Can Tompa kill the huntress–or will she be forced to sacrifice her own life to save her loved ones?
Book 3 in The Trilogy of Tompa Lee
Alien Contact for Idiots
When American Indians from the future move their entire island nation to our Earth, Ell Harmon makes the first 'alien' contact. The take-charge Seattle biologist has yearned to find intelligent aliens, and her dream comes true when she meets Prince Tro Eaglesbrood. Ell and Tro are quarantined together, while the fearful world wonders whether the newcomers are friends or foes, neighbors or conquerors. Ell knows Tro is honorable and Kwadrans are peaceful . . . but how to convince the world?
Alien Contact for Kid Sisters
Fleeing murderous rebels, the queen's sister finds a hero to save her . . . or is he kidnapping her, instead?
Marianne Harmon is sick and tired of being just the kid sister of the famous queen of Kwadra Island. Although she daydreams about being a warrior, when rebels bomb the royal ball she's shunted to one of the many tunnels that honeycomb Kwadra, where she awaits a captain of the valiant Royal Guardians. Except he isn't a Royal Guardian at all . . .
The Guardian Angel of Farflung Station
Farflung Space Station is the gateway to the frontier worlds inhabited by the Free Folk, who have been known to engage in space piracy from time to time. They're getting bolder every year—bold enough to view Farflung as prize to be conquered. They haven't counted on Sandrina, though. This mute waif knows so many of Farflung's secrets that she's the most powerful (and dangerous) person on the entire station...though nobody knows it yet.
They're about to find out.
Escapee
The African Queen in Outer Space . . . Catt Sayer just wants to survive. The working-class fugitive from the law earns a meager income delivering military supplies on a decrepit airship, but her hard-won career vanishes when invaders overrun her harsh moon. Now Hank Dukelsky, an idealistic upper-class soldier, wants her to risk her life on a hopeless voyage to attack the enemy headquarters – manned by 10,000 soldiers.
The Midas Rush
All Tresky Buffrum wants is a taste of adventure and freedom before resigning himself to the simple life of a shepherd. What he gets instead is a mysterious wife (determined to remain chaste) who leads him to the Midas Crater, where some of the planet's intelligent natives have been inexplicably transformed into gold. Can Tresky defeat the interplanetary conspirators—including his beloved wife—who seek to destroy the Midas Crater before its mysteries liberate humans from solitary confinement in their own minds?
Future Love
A spaceman wins the woman of his dreams … but it’s too late. A crook invents a new form of pornography … but it teaches him about love, not sex. A man pursues his beloved beyond death … but finds only the evil in his own heart. The SF short stories in Edward Hoornaert’s Future Love probe how the future will make today’s romance seem simple and tame by comparison. Think that’s not possible? You have much to learn…
Table of Contents
Copyright
Prelude
1 The Briefing
2 The Incident
3 Presumptions of Guilt
4 Irresistible
5 The Bastard Child
6 African Princess
7 The Bowels of Bez-Tattin
8 The Polyps of Preparation
9 The Gong of Ending and Beginning
10 One of the Good Guys
11 Anywhere but Death
12 Third Sleep
13 The Roach, Roussel
14 The Swimming Hole
15 Drunk, Like Orgy
16 A Rainfall of Rocks
17 The Seventh Sharboo-Cria
18 The Smell of Flowers
19 Ambush
20 The Teeth of the Mountain
21 The Purring of Gloves
22 The Grief of Tar-Thara
23 Into the Abyss
24 The Terrifying Star of Justice
25 The Wine of Orgy
26 Come the Morning
27 On the Table of Execution
28 The Judgment of Bez-Tattin
Coda
About the Author
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