Two Five’s Adventure, Part 4

by | Mar 9, 2013 | Uncategorized

      The ventilation shaft reminded Two-Five of a broodmale’s tunnel: a tight fit for an adult Slash Second. He was flat on his long belly, crouching on his four legs, supporting his upper body with two of his four arms and holding the pouch...

Two-Five’s Adventure, Part 3

by | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized

     Two-Five opened the pouch slung between his second pair of arms and removed a station map. The map did not mark the locations of the observation devices the humans installed at regular intervals along Tau Ceti’s outer ring, but he knew where...

Two-Five’s Adventure, Part 2

by | Mar 3, 2013 | Uncategorized

      “Hey now, what are you doing here, little guy?”       Two-Five’s inner eyelids snapped down as he turned his back on the grate. Looming over him was a large and hairy male in the uniform of a warrior for Earth...

Two-Five’s Adventure, Part 1

by | Mar 2, 2013 | Uncategorized

Curious about the Kekrax? Here begins the tale of one particularly adventurous specimen of this reptilian race, whose territory abuts Tolari space.       Two-Five of Four-Seven Slash Second scurried down the corridor of the station, tails held...

From the Cutting Room Floor, Part 4

by | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized

As promised, the rest of the original opening to First Contact: Tolar was a patchwork quilt of independent provinces, a pastoral world of technologically-backward people, a pre-industrial culture of scholars and artisans. Earth’s partners in the Trade Alliance had at...

From the Cutting Room Floor, Part 3

by | Feb 23, 2013 | Uncategorized

First Contact, the first of the two stories in Into Tolari Space, didn’t originally start with the words, “And now, the Tolari were calling.” At the suggestion of a member of my critique group, I cut the first almost-600 words and redistributed much...

Snippet Sunday

by | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized

At an undisclosed time, Storaas lies musing after his heart nearly fails him. Click below and find out a little more about the Sural’s history. A heart attack, the humans call it. I experienced a heart attack. The apothecaries say the shock of seeing a man I had...

Kirkus Review!

by | Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized

Kirkus Reviews gave me a Valentine’s Day gift in the form of a wonderful review, quoted in full below: “In the first in a series, Meierz’s debut, a rich sci-fi love story about a female teacher sent to a foreign planet to tutor the daughter of its rulers...