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    Omorti's Children
    Omorti's Legacy
    The Devil and Omorti's Circle
    Ebook series5 titles

    Omorti Series

    By David Lee Short

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    About this series

    Earth has recovered from its great cataclysm. Charu, an android, has decided to leave Earth to explore the arm of our galaxy closer to the core—a direction not yet taken by known sentient species. Her explorations draw her into situations that often put her, and sometimes the human species, in grave danger. She has a prophecy, ambiguous as always, that says the cost to her will be great.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Lee Short
    Release dateAug 12, 2022
    Omorti's Children
    Omorti's Legacy
    The Devil and Omorti's Circle

    Titles in the series (5)

    • 1

      The Devil and Omorti's Circle
      The Devil and Omorti's Circle

      The Devil and Omorti's Circle

      David Lee Short
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      Earth has launched its only colonization mission in space. An accident destroys one of the landing craft, sending a fourth of the colonists down on a low-probability trip in lifeboats. One of the few survivors finds himself in contact with an alien race that considers him the Devil. He must first survive and then make peace. He soon finds himself trapped in a conflict that he must settle.

      Earth has launched its only colonization mission in space. An accident destroys one of the landing craft, sending a fourth of the colonists down on a low-probability trip in lifeboats. One of the few survivors finds himself in contact with an alien race that considers him the Devil. He must first survive and then make peace. He soon finds himself trapped in a conflict that he must settle.

    • 2

      Omorti's Children
      Omorti's Children

      Omorti's Children

      David Lee Short
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      The second book in the Omorti series. Earth’s only off-world colony is rebuilding after an attack that nearly destroyed it. Newlyweds, Kat and Terry O’Neal have created a retreat for themselves far enough from the colony that their telepathic abilities will not cause paranoia among the “deaf” colonists, but it is not to last. Relatives of the cat-like alien Terry killed defending the colony, have returned looking for vengeance. In the meantime, Terry is drawn into the politics of the Bak, a race he suspects of seeding Earth with humanity.

      The second book in the Omorti series. Earth’s only off-world colony is rebuilding after an attack that nearly destroyed it. Newlyweds, Kat and Terry O’Neal have created a retreat for themselves far enough from the colony that their telepathic abilities will not cause paranoia among the “deaf” colonists, but it is not to last. Relatives of the cat-like alien Terry killed defending the colony, have returned looking for vengeance. In the meantime, Terry is drawn into the politics of the Bak, a race he suspects of seeding Earth with humanity.

    • 3

      Omorti's Legacy
      Omorti's Legacy

      Omorti's Legacy

      David Lee Short
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      The story of mankind's only interstellar colony continues. Colonists return to earth to find it in the grip of a world dictator. Terry O'Neal struggles to bring peace to his hurting home planet. Events are slipping out of control.

      The story of mankind's only interstellar colony continues. Colonists return to earth to find it in the grip of a world dictator. Terry O'Neal struggles to bring peace to his hurting home planet. Events are slipping out of control.

    • 4

      The Return
      The Return

      The Return

      David Lee Short
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      The colonists return to Earth after 300 years. Things are vastly changed. They are treated differently in different locations. A mysterious creature changes their plans forever.

      The colonists return to Earth after 300 years. Things are vastly changed. They are treated differently in different locations. A mysterious creature changes their plans forever.

    • 5

      Second Star
      Second Star

      Second Star

      David Lee Short
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      Earth has recovered from its great cataclysm. Charu, an android, has decided to leave Earth to explore the arm of our galaxy closer to the core—a direction not yet taken by known sentient species. Her explorations draw her into situations that often put her, and sometimes the human species, in grave danger. She has a prophecy, ambiguous as always, that says the cost to her will be great.

      Earth has recovered from its great cataclysm. Charu, an android, has decided to leave Earth to explore the arm of our galaxy closer to the core—a direction not yet taken by known sentient species. Her explorations draw her into situations that often put her, and sometimes the human species, in grave danger. She has a prophecy, ambiguous as always, that says the cost to her will be great.

    Author

    David Lee Short

    I was born at an early age (OK, age is just a number; mine is unlisted) in Kualakapuas, a Dayak village in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. My parents were missionaries–McGregor Scotts by ancestry, Americans by birth. At the time, Kalimantan was ruled by the Netherlands and known to foreigners as the Netherlands East Indies. Shortly after my birth, a Japanese invasion appeared imminent; we all returned to the United States. We waited out World War II in Springfield, Missouri where my father wrote and edited for the Gospel Publishing House. After the war, we returned to Borneo and lived in the coastal city of Banjarmasin. The way back was long and hard; civilian transportation was still very limited, and while the Army Air Corps would fly us on a space-available basis, very little space was available. We waited 3 months in Adelaide, South Australia, and another 3 months on the island of Ambon in the Moluccas, or Spice Islands. By the grace of God, none of the Japanese munitions I collected from the Ambon beaches exploded. I did, however, develop a fondness for mangos that has never left me. After Borneo, we lived outside Manila, the Philippines, where my father helped build the Far East Broadcasting Company. My father never had a slow button, and after just more than a year, he collapsed from exhaustion. Our ship docked in Burbank, California on December 20–it snowed 6 inches just for our benefit. We didn’t own so much as a long-sleeved shirt.Although I wrote in school, fighting wars and raising babies caused me to set it aside for some years. While snowbound for a week at our Wisconsin home, I decided to write a short story to pass the time. A little more than 100,000 words later, the novel Pastime came to be. The noted author of spy novels, David Hagberg, mentored me for a while. His judgment, correct as always, was that Pastime was a mixed genre; it is Earth-bound science fiction but has whole chapters where no sci-fi takes place. Just to prove I had it in me, I wrote The Devil and Omorti’s Circle, an off-world novel that expands on some of the alien races introduced in Pastime, and has a few of its own. There are now four novels in that series and a spinoff. A Level-Three Correction is a short story that further develops two of the alien races of earlier works. I wrote it to see if I could write a piece that had no slow passages. I give it a B+, but you may judge for yourself. Alaya is a departure for me. Fantasy, rather than hard science fiction, it’s Swords and Sorcery without the sorcery. It too has sequels and a spinoff.I currently live 6200 feet up the side of Colorado’s Grand Mesa and love it.

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