Aetherborne Book 1: A Tale from Elsewhere

By Marco Craine

One used to serve and protect the innocent. The other has barely outgrown her pirate legacy. These days, this odd couple earns their living on the aether routes in a more civilian manner. But exploring the frontiers of space is no leisure cruise, and eventually good intentions meet tough luck: When the duo get too curious about a dodgy shipwreck, they find themselves facing their own demons.

A Tale from Elsewhere is a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi romp that does not seek to reinvent the space wheel, but to provide an enjoyable foray into a world of interstellar adventure and weirdness, with a sprinkling of drama. While it serves as an appetizer for more to come, this first instalment of the Aetherborne series is also a perfectly self-contained story, and easily digested as such.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marco Craine
• Release date: Nov 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215889282

Marco Craine

A spawn of the late twentieth century, Marco was first exposed to the allure of the fantastical by contemporary science fiction television. Needless to say, he was as disappointed as anybody to eventually learn that the star-hopping adventures depicted in those tales were pseudo-scientific pipe dreams and their visions of a utopian future decidedly optimistic. Yet, the sense of wonder was never lost to him. Besides having developed interests in real science and philosophy, Marco firmly retains his fascination for the strange and the not quite possible, for worlds that may well exist solely in our imagination but are free to enjoy an appropriate lack of bounds there.

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