Return to Tranquility: A Dream is told from the point of view of the first person to return to the Moon, decades after the last Apollo voyage.
I stand on the shore of an airless sea.
Home world above, in the void, blue and white
As if God painted the night sky with light.
I strode on the face of the airless sea
Toward hallowed ground of star sailors of old.
Their monument gleams on the airless sea,
Flotsam of their feat scattered carelessly.
I stop and see, tumbled into the dust,
The familiar standard, red, white, and blue
Which once flew over that perfect moment
When impossible became history
And all the dreams of an endless future
Lay before us like an epic story
Ready to be written by heart and will.
I picked up the flag, shook off ancient dust
I raised it anew where the winds slumber,
Ne’er again to fall, soaring forever.
A Subtle Armageddon follows in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in defending traditional values in an increasingly secular culture. It deals with the plight of the last man on Earth, who ought to have had it easy. But he is not the la
The Starlords is a science fiction/fantasy story about ancient Starlords (old gods) or ancient aliens who along with their scions rule parts of the galaxy.
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