Dreaming Large: Seeders Universe

By Dean Wesley Smith

The Dreaming Large, a Seeders mother ship, vanishes without a trace while approaching the edge of a galaxy.

Chairman West and his crew on the Rescue One must find out what happened to the huge mother ship. And the over half-million lives on it.

But as they approach the galaxy’s edge, the last known position of the big moon-sized mother ship, what they find surprises them all.

They find nothing. Absolutely nothing.

A galaxy-spanning science fiction story of the unknowns in space.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Apr 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524298586

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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The Dreaming Large, a Seeders mother ship, vanishes without a trace while approaching the edge of a galaxy.

Chairman West and his crew on the Rescue One must find out what happened to the huge mother ship. And the over half-million lives on it.

But as they approach the galaxy’s edge, the last known position of the big moon-sized mother ship, what they find surprises them all.

They find nothing. Absolutely nothing.

A galaxy-spanning science fiction story of the unknowns in space.

CHAPTER ONE

THE LAST THREE YEARS had gone faster than Chairman Evan West had expected. Around him on the bridge of the Rescue One, the fifteen members of his main crew were all standing ready at their stations on the three levels, all scanning ahead as much as they could.

He knew that through the entire ship the thirty thousand people on board were also watching intently.

West was a tall, thin man with bright green eyes, balding head,