A space opera short story ft. Nova Whiteside.

A routine military prisoner transfer turns into a nightmare when Lieutenant Nova Whiteside's deep-space transport is crippled by an unknown enemy.

As strange signals flood the ship's systems and hostile alien intruders appear aboard, Nova discovers that nothing about the attack is what it seems.

This stand-alone short story is part of the Targon Tales universe, following the career and adventures of Nova Whiteside over a series of sci-fi novels.

Nova Whiteside - The Targon Tales

A character-driven space opera following an Air Command pilot navigating rebellion, politics, and shifting loyalties across the Targon Commonwealth.

0 Sky Hunter - a Prequel

1 The Catalyst

2 Only Human

3 Rebel Alliances

4 Delphi Promised

Sethran Kada - The Targon Tales: Sethran

A government agent pretending to be a rebel ? or a rebel pretending to be a government agent. Sometimes even he isn't sure anymore.

1 Quantum Tangle

2 Terminus Shift

3 Entropy's End

4 Killian's Maze

The Outbounder Chronicles

Explorers and prospectors push beyond the edge of human space, where habitable worlds are rare and every journey into the unknown carries risk.

Metamorph

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