Th'Invasion of Hab Xenophage

By Dennis Black

Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!

 

Every·one will remember 1st·Contact – knew that going in.  Likewise no·one will ever remember 2nd·Contact, unless of·course some·thing goes horribly wrong.

Most online .epub preview utilities were originally intended for black-and-white, and it shows.  The added features are always the clunkiest, thus most such previewers are truly pathetic at rendering color.  Your own color e-reader device, if you have one, is likely far better, could hardly be any worse.  But you'll never know that from the online preview.  If you could simply download an excerpt for free, you could try it out on your own color e-reader and know right away whether it's compatible, if only such a download were available, especially if it  contains an entire sub·story in·and·of itself, not just another teaser.

 

In that case, for the novels in the Strains series, you're in luck, particularly in the case of An Imperfect Storm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: non·standard thought
• Release date: Oct 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781962461054

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th'Invasion of

Hab Xenophage

Th'e·novel An Imperfect Storm

is a highly formatted yet reflowable

experimental hybrid that makes

significant use of multi·colored texts

and backgrounds, is thus not intended

for most e·readers.

This short·story #2a excerpts a few pieces

from that novel, for use in checking

the compatibility of any such device.

Good luck!

If the device fails yet the story

succeeds, do try a different device.

Dennis Black

Copyright © 2023 by Dennis Black

All rights reserved.

Excerpted with permission

from An Imperfect Storm,

copyright © 2023 Dennis Black.

ISBN:  978-1-962461-05-4

Publisher:  non·standard thought

First edition:  October 2023

This is a work of escape fiction. 

As such, any resemblance to reality

is a failing for which you have

my most embarrassed apology

as·well·as my keenest curiosity

about the nature of the reality

that you personally inhabit,

and I encourage you to please

write it all down in great detail,

so that your semi·detached state

might provide that much further

escape for the rest of us, for which

we shall all be most grateful.

casualties

conflict

rendezvous

Collapse + 19.160 laaps : Hab Xenophage

Habitat Xenophage came into her identity nearly a laap ago when Xenophile tripled – ie, split into 3 – in Terra's trailing·Trojan orbit.  Until she reaches her own chosen much·higher orbit, she remains out of sync, unable to rendezvous with the constellated