Lorinda J. Taylor

Retired librarian, writes SF/F about intelligent termites, first contacts, future history. Books at

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Featuring my series The Man Who Found Birds among the Stars. 7 5-star reviews on v.1: "... a story of flawed heroes and perfect plot, of hard science and tender hearts. It is intelligently written, fantastic entertainment for the
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@WillieHandler That's a good 'un! I like it! 🙃

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#SciFISat See you in the Afterlife, however you view it! Thanks for the likes! @hifsays @GamerWriter @voimaoy @bowengreenwood

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#SciFiSat [Now some termite-style metaphysical ruminations between Di’fa’kro’mi and Ki’shto’ba …]

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#SciFiSat [1/7] “What do you really believe, Ki’shto’ba? About life after death, I mean, and the proper way to pay homage to the Nameless. Your people and mine tell the tale of Creation in slightly different ways, but they are really not that far apart. …

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#SciFiSat [2/7] “And yet now you always speak of Mik Na’wei’tei’zi [the World Beneath] as if it were the only possible manifestation of the World Beyond. Are you really so very sure that your experiences were real?”

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#SciFiSat [3/7] “I cannot say that I am very sure about much of anything. But they seemed real to me, and I think they delivered a great truth – but are truth and reality always the same? Vai’zei’a’parn did not believe they are, I recall. …

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#SciFiSat [4/7] “What I experienced may not have happened anywhere, or it could as well have taken place in the sky as under the ground. I only know I expect to be with A’zhu’lo again.” Ki’shto’ba drew its twin’s mandible toward its palps and stroked it tenderly.

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#SciFiSat [5/7] I looked up at the deep, dark sky w/ its sparkling stars – at the moons, one full, one a thin sliver just peeping above the horizon, the whole shrouded in a shadowy bank of clouds that cd well be the body of the Highest Mother whom the One Between saw in the sky.

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#SciFiSat [6/7] “In spite of everything that has happened to me, I still see my truth in the sky, Ki’shto’ba. I wish you could see the sky. It is a wondrous sight.”
“I can feel it – the senses of my soul still live. Sometimes I secretly hope …

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#SciFiSat [7/7] “that the World Beyond really is a World Above, and solace will be found resting upon the Mother’s belly among the stars, as Lug’tei’a so passionately believed.”
I drifted for a while, dreaming what it would be like to sail among those stars.

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#SciFiFri Nice "meeting" you! Thanks for the likes! @bowengreenwood @Lindorfan @SchatzSpeaks @voimaoy @the_egghunter @HilaryRSparkes

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#SciFiFri The purpose of the #meeting was to announce the schedule for the next few weeks. The recruiting call for non-coms and enlisted had gone out on Thursday and vetting of candidates would begin as soon as applications began filtering in.

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#SciFiFri “This afternoon Ed and I are #meeting with the engineering corps. We’ll begin dissecting the ships’ general schematics right down to Ops stuff, like lifts and latches and the Galley’s cooking equipment.”
“Don’t forget the coffee makers,” said Robbie.

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#SciFiFri [1/2] “Adm. Malakoff wants you in his office at 1300h sharp. And Adm. Kade will be on Base tomorrow and he’s scheduled a #meeting with you at 0900h, in the Admiral’s private conference room.”

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#SciFiFri [2/2] “Uh, oh. Probably got something to do with that speech I made.”
“It was a great speech, Captain. It’ll definitely get the whole Earth behind what Maj. Thaksin is trying to accomplish.”

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#SciFiFri “We’ll be back before that 5 July, worst-case-scenario, arrival date.”
“And if you aren’t,” said Capt. Norman, #meeting Robbie’s gaze steadily, “then I guarantee you, Captain – the Dauntless will be coming to find you.”

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#vss365 Nobody is #dead here, thank goodness! Thanks for the likes! @Lindorfan @rwmilone @SchatzSpeaks @writer_esther @jbeanhockey @DevillineS @voimaoy @jbubjr @Write2Fite

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[1/3] “I realized I was surrounded by ghosts – yes, ghosts! – souls of those who had died. They were flitting through the darkness around me – Warriors, Alates, Workers … I could see them as one sees the threads of web-weavers, w/ the palest glimmer coming thru them. …
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[2/3] “Even the Alates seemed to see nothing and they were all speaking a monotonous gibber of sendings that made no sense. I was overwhelmed with sorrow and so I began another word-crafting. And they all ceased their restlessness …
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[3/3] “… and turned their witless heads toward me and knew some moments of joy as I passed by.” [So Bu’gan’zei (Orpheus) interacts with the lost #dead in the World Beneath.]
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