Tom Fleet's incredible Machine

PAX collections are always lots of fun! I have enjoyed them from the beginning and added tales to a number of them. I also love futuristic or sci-fi inspired stories. My very first gay romance story, Treading Dangerous Ground was one of those. We'd been chatting on the author's loop (then only Amber Heat) about the new interest in m/m romance tales. I really didn't think I could write one but soon after that, I got such an urgent idea for one that I wrote the opening scene in long hand while I was eating breakfast! Now I never write long hand anymore and it's almost illegible when I do so that says a lot.

This story set a background that I've now returned to twice--a bit of Star Wars and Star Trek and years of reading sci fi and futuristic certainly colors my universe but it is still 'my way' when it get on the screen or the page. The second story Fire On Ice takes place on a frozen world the UniCouncil has chosen to explore and take control off for reasons the characters do not know. It follows the struggle and the love story of an officer and his senior NCO in a very hostile environment.

OF course I had to do something for the latest futuristic PAX. The idea that came was both zany and a bit different, a mixture of steam punk and Star Trek perhaps--and introduces the nephew of Gordon Farrell from Fire On Ice. who is a new UniFleet Officer. The twist comes with the other hero--he just kind of popped on scene and told me his background--Tom Fleet, second son of a minor noble of 1880s England who has a penchant for tinkering. Quite inadvertantly he invents the first orgasm powered space craft to ever take flight. Turns out it can also time travel! The story mingles tongue in cheek humor, near slapstick with some serious aspects and if readers have half the fun reading it that I did writing it, I will be tickled pink!!

Here is the cover and I'll share an excerpt in the next post.
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