Sunday, 26 April 2026

They All Meet

Harvest The Fire, CHAPTER 6.

Continuing characters converge when Venator (download), a brain in a box hidden in a concealed cupboard, spies on Falaire (Lunarian) and Nicol (Terran) meeting Lirion (Lunarian), Seyant (Lunarian) and Hench (Intellect) to discuss the Lunarian heist of Federation anti-matter. Big one! (Lunarians and Intellects are two kinds of metamorphs.) Since, immediately after this clandestine meeting, Lirion apprehends Venator, the latter is unable to report the conspiracy. Nice one!

The only other item that I want to record this evening is Falaire's apartment in CHAPTER 5 but that is already here.

Harvest The Fire is a compact short narrative contrasting sharply with the three other Harvest Of Stars volumes. As far as I can remember, Nicol is destined not only to pilot the ship used for the hijack but also to write epics about Proserpina and the edge of interstellar space. Humanity triumphs.

2 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

One intelligence will often fail against a large number of intelligences.

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

Because Venator and even the cybercosm could not absolutely predict what their opponents would do.

Ad astra! Sean