colony ships
Found 4 works tagged 'colony ships'.
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Water: A History
Published Feb 15, 2021 · 3,428 words (13 minutes) · 30 views
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Marie is the oldest woman in the colony of Isla on the parched desert planet of Quányuán and the last living person with direct memories of Earth. A sarcastic loner, she enjoys her position and uses it to tell elaborate lies about her past and keep people distant—until she meets 16-year-old Lian, who genuinely wants to know: "What was Earth like?"
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Light Years
Published Dec 1, 2019 · 99 words (1 minute)
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The best place for vampires is a deep-space colony ship. Without lethal daylight, who can stop us?
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If You See Him on the Road
Published Jan 27, 2019 · 2,349 words (9 minutes) · 1 like · 372 views
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If you see the Buddha on the road (the saying goes), then kill him. But on a massive, multi-generational colony spaceship, where everyone’s knowledge of their circumstances and mission are warping with time, who are the new arbiters of truth and what is real?
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Something to Be Tamed
Published Jun 7, 2018 · 6,176 words (23 minutes) · 1 like · 763 views
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David used to be a settler in a colony of humans. Now, the colony has been destroyed by the resident aliens, and David is forced to live as one of their exotic pets. But is being kept and cared for really so bad? And when another human—and freedom fighter—arrives in the yard next door as the neighbors’ new pet, what’s the most ethical way to react?
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