All the women on the planet Aranea have two things in common: a voracious appetite and a Live Room in their kitchen.
Margo put her mouth next to Sergeant Zappy’s ear. “Do you remember the egg sacks we collected on Terra during our second recon?”
“That’s a hard thing to forget, Colonel,” said Zappy. We must have brought back a thousand of them. The lab people had a field day. They incubated a couple dozen sacks. About a week later, the lab was crawling with Terra newborn. It was weird, Colonel. Going in the lab after that was like stepping through a time portal into Aranea’s past. Felt like I was walking into the middle of a lesson on evolution.”
“Do you know if the lab still has any egg sacks left?”
“I’d say about a million live specimens, and the Ancients only know how many new egg sacks. It’s been kind of a hobby for the lab gals. You should be here on race day, Colonel. The Terran’s are fast little buggers.”
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
Utterly Fantastic Occurrences is a collection of 20 science fiction short story novellas existing in hardcover, in paperback and in Kindle and Nook e-book formats.
