A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection: Seeders Universe

By Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith offers up five fantastic space opera stories in his bestselling Seeders Universe series.

The people of Earth thought they alone represented humankind. But when Earth falls, the truth about the origin of the universe shatters that myth. And sometimes one answer only leads to more questions…

These five stories show different parts of the massive Seeders Universe and offer a taste of the Billion Earths that can be found in all the Seeders novels.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Mar 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393537427

Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names. He has written books and comics for Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse, as well as scripts for Hollywood. Over his career, he also worked as an editor and publisher for Pulphouse Publishing and Pocket Books. Currently, he writes thrillers and mysteries under one of his many pseudonyms.

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A Billion Earths

A BILLION EARTHS

A SEEDERS UNIVERSE COLLECTION

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

WMG Publishing, Inc.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Remember Me to Your Children

Introduction

Remember Me to Your Children

A Matter for a Future Year

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

A Bad Patch of Humanity

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

A Deal at the End of Time

Introduction

A Deal at the End of Time

Dreaming Large

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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About the Author

INTRODUCTION

I love writing space opera. I must, since I wrote under my name (and other names) 35 different Star Trek novels over a decade. And had fun with almost every one of them.

The Seeders came from a Star Trek: Next Gen episode, actually, where Picard was at an archeological site and it was mentioned that a race they called The Seeders had planted humanoids on all the different planets millions of years earlier, which was why all the alien races were humanoid in shape.

Years later I remembered that and thought I would tell some stories from the Seeders’ point of view. And what it would take for a race to do such a task.

And the idea just exploded for me from there.

Basically, the Seeders are long-lived humans who can teleport. Seeders’ mother ships hold millions and are larger than most cities.

And they think nothing of moving from galaxy to galaxy. That was the fun of figuring all this out.

For example, our Milky Way Galaxy is a smallish spiral galaxy with from 200 to 400 billion stars. Millions and millions of those stars would be far enough away from the galaxy core to sustain life and be yellow stars and have a planet in the same orbit as Earth.

So the Seeders terraformed each planet and seeded humans and all the plants and animal life identical to the original Earth (that was in another galaxy), and then stuck around to help the humans all mature and take the same basic path into space.

Creating billions and billions of almost identical Earths.

I have now written a lot of Seeders novels and numbers of short stories. Some of these stories have been used to start a novel, but I wanted to gather the short stories here for the first time.

I plan on writing a lot more Seeders novels over the years. And do more short stories. The Seeders’ ships flash past galaxies like they are fence posts, yet with the size of known space, the Seeders barely cover a tiny part of just our local cluster of galaxies.

And I have covered just a tiny part of the stories I want to tell.

Space is a very, very large place and the Seeders have somehow managed to spread the human race over billions of Earths in millions of galaxies, and they are still going.

And I am still writing their stories and having great fun. Hope you enjoy these stories as well.

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Dean Wesley Smith

Las Vegas, NV

REMEMBER ME TO YOUR CHILDREN

INTRODUCTION

USA Today bestselling writer returns to the world of his latest novel, Dust and Kisses, the first of many books that span time and space in his Seeders’ Universe.

In this heartfelt story, Tammy works with her best friend and love, Hal, to help in the formal discovery and burial of the dead lost in the Big Death. The survivors call the task The Respect Project.

On a Portland, Oregon, suburban street, Tammy discovers from the tragedy of a family that the future can be a hopeful place.

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Tammy, can’t you just relax a little?"

Tammy glanced around at her best friend and lover, Hal Lemmon, as he tried to follow her up the center of the suburban street. The day was hot and Hal was sweating, staining his white tee shirt around the brown straps of the backpack he carried. His longish brown hair was damp where it stuck out from under his Yankee’s baseball cap.

His handsome face was flushed and he looked tired, even though they had only gone four blocks in distance.

She was hot as well, which was why she had been walking fast, trying to get them to their starting target before they stopped or the heat got them. It normally wasn’t this hot in Portland, Oregon, or at least that’s what some long-time residents of the area had told her earlier.

She was wearing jeans with tennis shoes, a sleeveless tank-top with a sports bra under it, and she had her short blonde hair under a Dodgers baseball cap. Sweat was running off her neck and down her chest and she desperately needed a drink of water.

She had her Smith and Wesson pistol in a holster on her hip and Hall had a small twenty-two saddle rifle tied to the side of his backpack. It had been years since they had gone anywhere without those guns, winter or summer. They both had admitted they would feel naked without them.

On both sides of the suburban street around them, the houses were like tombstones for the people who had been killed inside of them when the Big Death